I just finished reading this book, I closed and I must say that I was shaken. The end is really painful. Culicchia is an author who reveals the truth, reality, suffering, cruelty. And it does so with skill, style and simplicity. With purity. Some writers can pierce the heart and the heart like love, but when it is painful. This final pierced me, got me back to very old memories that had faded away. It surprised me. Inside.
The story of Attila, called Attila, a boy of 14 years, and a very important year for her life and its growth, the first year of high school, 1977. A politically difficult year, a year of changes, a year that you slap on the reality and makes you become a man by force.
Attila is a shy guy, supported by love and friendship of her strange and problematic friend Franz or Francis said Zazzi. A guy who believes a fascist, but then it's not even so sure, weird and unusual, challenging everything and everyone but terribly alone, as you may have and feel all the boys of that age. Attila has a sister, Alice, who loves so much and who has just moved to Milan, she ran away from his family, a family in which love is not even whispered, and where the appearance prevails, almost to wear down the affects become a standard of living to be met in order to allow the silence and peace that every family should have (but not happiness).
Attila suffers, and loves only his grandfather, who was also a crank and rooted in his political views but extremely intelligent and innovative, pushing Attila not giving up and deal with his life as a teenager with a heart and desire.
Everything is peppered with anecdotes, especially school teachers, field trips, questions, ultra-Catholic classmates, rebellion, the first crush on an older girl who just think you see it or emotions, fear of not being able to finish anything in life, and some political and social interlude Culicchia part of an intelligent and well for the reader to better understand the events occurring at that time in those months, in those hours.
You can grow well in a family where you do not feel understood, in a school you do not like, with an incredible desire to do other (music), with a loving sister away, with a mother and a father from the mournful character that does not exist only lowers her head, splashed with a friend and the disappointment and the expectation that then, after perhaps not be able to do anything other than what he is unable to immature kid and too young to really be able to do?
Adolescence is the case, and maybe for the male children is even more difficult. But it seems that when the failure precedence over the real possibility, life slaps you in front of you relentlessly. So even if you are ready, even if you do not want to, even if you feel you can not do it, it's time to grow.
Extremely realistic and alive. Write a colorful and flowing. Definitely a book to read.
Wonderland
Culicchia Joseph
Garzanti Libri, 2006
€ 9.00
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