Monday, April 28, 2008
Scorpionsnowmobile Helmets
Tania Baumann
The visitor who arrives today in Orosei, one of the most important tourist centers of the coast baroniese, difficult to imagine that this place has a mild climate in the past has been marked by many hardships: disasters Natural sadly also in the news recently, not very distant barbarian incursions in 1806 that forced the inhabitants of Orosei, under the guidance of Thomas Majolu, to address at the cove Osalla courageously than 700 Tunisian forcing them to flee; primarily , the endemic only defeat the scourge of malaria in 1950 with the help of the U.S. Rockefeller Foundation.
Grazia Deledda, particularly attentive to the plight of his countrymen, it reflects different aspects in his own literary work. So in the novel The Feast of Christ , included in the collection
Chiaroscuro (1912), recalls the "pale woman with a swollen belly for the fevers of malaria, [and] slender man in a scarlet waistcoat, legs straight and dry as those of the deer. " On the other hand, Orosei also appears as the scene of religious festivals where the sacred and the profane mingle in joyful glee: "The festival lasted for nine days in the last three round dance became a continuous accompanied by songs and chants. The story of the novena at the shrine of the Remedy occupies an important part in Reeds in the Wind (1913) because it exposes the characters and conflicts that will be developed in the novel: locations and movements of mind of the characters are in fact inextricably linked in the work deleddiana. And while young people danced and intertwined friendships and loves, the two sisters Pintor, noblewomen older now reduced to great poverty, with a sweet melancholy reminiscent of the past glories of their families: "The ladies had Pintor at their disposal two huts of the oldest [...] precisely those
muristenes sas sas de damas, because their properties have become almost following gifts and donations to their church ave from the time the archbishops of Pisa in their pastoral visits to the diocese sardines landed at the nearest port and celebrated Mass at the Shrine. " younger sister, Naomi, remained alone in the old mansion of GalT-Galtellì, nostalgically evokes his youth passed through the memories of the sanctuary: "He saw the gray little church and round like a large nest upside down in the grass of the vast courtyard, the walls of huts in wall within which a whole people trod colorful and picturesque as a tribe of gypsies, the crude viewpoint column, above the cabin destined for the priest, and the blue, the murmuring trees, the sea glistened silver in the dunes there. " already resigned herself to an austere existence without love, Naomi will shine one last ray of youth and life in his incestuous feelings for his nephew Hyacinth, son of a fourth sister , Lia, who fled as a young man back in the "continent" to avoid the tyranny of his father. In the solitude of a summer evening, Noemi abandons his dreams:
"It seemed to be unconscious, [...] and that her tears were those of Giacinto and sipping a fruit juice as the sour with greedy lips trembling with all the kisses they had given or received.
The youth, the passion, the pain of Giacinto transfuse it into her, forgot his age, his appearance, his absence seemed to be lying under the clear water in the thick of a forest and see a figure bending to drink, drinking, over his mouth It was Hyacinth, but it was her, Naomi alive, hungry for love, a mysterious spirit who was sipping all the water source, all life from her mouth, so he had an insatiable thirst, and then lay in the hollow of fountain in the wood and formed a single being with her. " According to a hypothesis of Massimo Pittau, the name of his nephew, Giacinto Pintor, was not chosen randomly, but would have its model in the journalist, writer and painter - the latter activity should return the name of the character - Giacinto Satta, born in 1851 in Orosei, on which Grazia Deledda was poured his love of dreamy teenager. Satta was certainly an interesting character in the cultural life of Sardinia at the end of the nineteenth century so it is not difficult to imagine that had fascinated the aspiring writer: beautiful, cultured, her eventful life she had led, inter alia, in Rome, London, Algiers , Tunis, Tripoli and for a long time to Paris, where he collaborates with its articles to the magazine "Life Sardinian", thereby contributing to confer a wide-ranging cultural and well-documented literary and artistic currents of the major European centers. Probably the young
Grace - whose name appears among the contributors to the magazine since the first issue, published in 1891 - Giacinto Satta was also updated his knowledge of contemporary French literature to her. Back in Sardinia, Nuoro oroseino participated in the fervent coterie of intellectuals and artists Sardinian - among which the lawyer-poet and the painter Antonio Sebastiano Satta Ballero - barbaricino who conquered the capital, as the same Deledda wrote in 1894 with obvious pride, the title of "the Sardinian Athens". If
Giacinto Satta contributed to imports of major currents of European culture in Sardinia, Grazia Deledda, formed through the mediation helped to turn make known to a national audience and its European Sardinia tragic hour happy hour, but always wrapped in a veil of magical poetry.
And the attentive visitor can still find places in Orosei and atmosphere that stimulated Grazia Deledda to write some of his most famous.
The origins of the Sardinian issue. The structures, learning, legacy
, in L. Berlinguer - A. Brick (ed.), Sardinia. History of Italy. The regions now
Unit, Torino, Einaudi, 1998, p. 7. 2 - G. Deledda, Novelle , Nuoro, Ilisso, 1996, p. 156.
3 - G. Deledda, The great novels, Rome, Newton Compton, 1997, p. 604.
4 - Ibid, p. 609. 5 - Ibid, p. 603.
6 - Ibid, p. 639.
7 - Giacinto Satta was, among other things, the author of a historical novel titled The Treasure of the Angevin
(1907), cf. By the way, G. Marci,
Fiction Sardinianof the twentieth century. Images and sense of identity, Cagliari, Cueca, 1991, pp. 21-30. 8 - See M. Pittau, Grazia Deledda for Giacinto Satta: young love, in Id, Odysseus and Nausica and Other Essays in Sardinia, Nuoro, Insula, 1994, pp. 225-231.
9 - Regarding the importance magazines for the formation of Grazia Deledda, cf. G. Cerina, Grazia Deledda and magazines in Ead.,
Deledda and other storytellers. Myth of the island and insularityconsciousness, Cagliari, Cueca, 1992, pp. 77-110. 10 - See G. Pirodda, Sardinia, in A. Asor (ed.),
Italian Literature. History and geography, Vol III, Torino, Einaudi, 1989, p. 955. 11 - See G. Deledda, Popular traditions of Sardinia, Rome, Newton Compton, 1995, p. 66.
Tanja Baumann (Bruchsal, Germany, 1974), graduated in Romance Philology and Literature, specializing in Italian literature and modern Sardinian Ruperto-Carola University of Heidelberg (Germany) with a thesis on female figures in the novels of Grazia Deledda, obtained in the same university his PhD. He has worked with numerous magazines, teaches in the German Language Centre of the University of Sassari University.
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