Post by account_disabled on Dec 20, 2023 8:05:06 GMT
Totò and politicsAnother question that often comes to mind. Should a writer show himself openly interested in the political life of his country? And to what extent? Does he have to take a specific political position, I mean, at the cost of attracting inevitable antipathies? Because, let's say it clearly, politics generates antipathy. It has always been this way and it will always be this way. What I want to say, however, is not that a writer should avoid having a political ideology or publicly declaring himself a sympathizer of this or that current. After all, it's his right.
What I want to say - and what I ask myself - is whether he should use his public space, his blog so to speak, the place where he speaks to his readers, to engage in politics. Or, better yet, to talk about her political ideas, to show herself as an activist perhaps. I want to give two examples that, in my opinion, fit perfectly. Two writers who have publicly expressed Special Data their belonging to a specific political current. A current that I abhor. I won't say which one, because it's irrelevant. Suffice it to say that I have almost all the books by one of these writers, while I will never read anything by the other. And neither of them writes political essays, but novels. I started reading two novels by the first writer out of curiosity. I liked them and bought more. Over time, reading those stories, I understood how the author thought. Like its protagonist.
You don't create a character that you carry forward for dozens of novels if that character isn't some sort of counterpart to you. It didn't bother me. I thought the opposite, but that was a story and if one really wants to find a warning, a kind of indoctrination in it, that's her problem. For me it was the protagonist's idea and whether it differed from mine didn't matter. Not everyone can think like me... I then read somewhere that the author sympathized with a certain political movement and I had confirmation of what I had intuited by reading his stories. But I continued to buy his books and read them. In his books there are stories, flowing, relaxing, beautiful. If he wrote a political essay about his ideas, I wouldn't buy it, obviously. But as long as he writes novels, he will always have a place on my bookshelf.
What I want to say - and what I ask myself - is whether he should use his public space, his blog so to speak, the place where he speaks to his readers, to engage in politics. Or, better yet, to talk about her political ideas, to show herself as an activist perhaps. I want to give two examples that, in my opinion, fit perfectly. Two writers who have publicly expressed Special Data their belonging to a specific political current. A current that I abhor. I won't say which one, because it's irrelevant. Suffice it to say that I have almost all the books by one of these writers, while I will never read anything by the other. And neither of them writes political essays, but novels. I started reading two novels by the first writer out of curiosity. I liked them and bought more. Over time, reading those stories, I understood how the author thought. Like its protagonist.
You don't create a character that you carry forward for dozens of novels if that character isn't some sort of counterpart to you. It didn't bother me. I thought the opposite, but that was a story and if one really wants to find a warning, a kind of indoctrination in it, that's her problem. For me it was the protagonist's idea and whether it differed from mine didn't matter. Not everyone can think like me... I then read somewhere that the author sympathized with a certain political movement and I had confirmation of what I had intuited by reading his stories. But I continued to buy his books and read them. In his books there are stories, flowing, relaxing, beautiful. If he wrote a political essay about his ideas, I wouldn't buy it, obviously. But as long as he writes novels, he will always have a place on my bookshelf.