Barañain Tertulia. The same pleasant environment, as always, the same people so dear. But recently my participation in this gathering is very intermittent. And I will not feel obliged to read all the books suggested, however balanced and attractive is the list that Jesus, the librarian, has prepared.
With the amount of regulated areas that are in my life, unavoidable commitments they come to me or who I can not say no, I want to preserve, in reading, a place to get carried away the mood of the moment, by the call of the latest innovation or, conversely, the claim of the book completely out of date that someone has suggested, or quoted and do not know where that particular time that fits my interests or obsessions, at least a priori (then there are disappointments, of course, but also joys unusual). I remember with nostalgia those remote years when I read like crazy, without plan or obligations, moving haphazardly from the broad field of my tastes.
Today we speak of Barañain The Baron in the Trees, by Italo Calvino. A wonderful book, much more entertaining, profound and subtle than I remembered. The adventurous life of a hero trees (and it's great the way it always tries to Calvin's fantasy of his adventures keep a healthy dose of credibility), but at the same time very contemporary text, a parable that helps to think about current issues and feelings furiously.
The Baron in the Trees supports thousand approaches. But in my reading of these days I've thought about how Cosimo, the baron who at twelve years decides to live forever in the trees, define their relationship with others. Cosimo is a hermit, not a bitter or haughty unsociable, or someone who has decided to break with his family or the people of his town, or do not want to know anything of those who visit over the years, attracted by its strange way of life and wisdom. Moreover, Cosimo actively involved in community life. Several times when your contribution is crucial to addressing the problems they pose to their countrymen. And it's full of dreams reformist social improvement plans.
But from that, almost child, climbs trees, Cosimo is a free man, a man who, as he says when his first love away, resists, which reserves the right to be or not be, to appear or disappear, zoom in or out. His stubbornness to stay on the tree symbolizes a lifetime commitment that encourages you not to be assimilate, to prevent any person or group he or atenace domestique. He is always on air, which does not mean that is always nearby, out there, hovering near or far, coming and going by the limited scope of their domains, trees that you can jump. All
a moral lesson.
"As this passion that has always shown Cosimo partner for life be reconciled with their perpetual flight of civil partnership, is something I've never understood, and remains one of the no less singular in his character. It seems that he was the more determined to hide among the branches, the more I felt the need to create new relationships with mankind. But although occasionally be cast, body and soul, to organize a new society, carefully setting the statutes, the purposes, the choice of the most appropriate for each office, his colleagues never knew how far he could have , when and where to find it, and when it would suddenly gained bird by nature and would not be catching more. Maybe, if it is to be reduced to a single pulse these contradictory attitudes, have to think he was also the enemy of all kinds of human relations existing in his time, and that's why everyone was fleeing, and she was struggling with stubborn to experience new ones, but none of them seem fair and sufficiently different from the others, hence their continued hiatus absolute disdain. "
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