Fabrizio Ulivieri - TrendSetter

Folly is inhabiting man as well as the divine. They compensate each other but they struggle and fight at the same time. This is what is bringing about the human drama of homo interior . Dostoevsky is the author who best depicts madness in man, which suffocates the vitalism of  homo interior (where the equipoise between madness and divine is perfectly working) to such a point that puts him in a cramped corner of his soul, the underground, where folly is taking the upper hand in man. In the incipit of Notes from the Underground , the main character describes his folly as, initially, an illness which then transforms into pleasure for illness and finally he savours it as a sweet and rewarding pleasure of his folly. "I am a sick man…. I am an angry man. I am an unattractive man. I think there is something wrong with my liver. But I don’t understand the least thing about my illness, and I don’t know for certain what part of me is affected. I am not having any treatment for it, and never...

  I consider writers according to two categories. 1) boring writers 2) writers who make me suffer , About the first category, there is not so much to say. The 98% is boring, pointless, battery-hens-writers. See my post about MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ . About the second category, I include those few writers who, when I read their novels, make me suffer, and I have to read them in instalments. I can read a half page or one page each time, a maximum of two pages, after that the sufferance becomes unbearable, overwhelming, but nonetheless, I return to their pages because that sufferance, in the end, makes me think and opens new unprecedented horizons in front of me. It is well known that scientia dolorem auget . The most typical example is J.M: Coetzee . For example his Disgrace or Slow Man . But the peak is Salvador Besnedra, El traductor. His writing is first of all irritating, hurting, excessive, and displacing...but he teaches new ways of writing, new ways of thinking, and new ways of mi...