Why Do People Think The English Are Ugly

"Byzantine Oratorio": the new book by Franco Arminio

Author: Franco Arminio

Foreword by Franco Cassano

Published in: February 2011

Pages: 160

ISBN: 88-230-1524-1

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In this new book, Arminio collects his most lyrically civilians, and with its surreal and comic style reminiscent authorial posture a bit 'Emil Cioran and a little' the narrator 'in public' Peter Bichsel, acclaimed master of short prose. Divided into thematic groups (meetings moral, political experience, paesologo in the election campaign, the battles for civil hospital Bisaccia and against the landfill Formica) ilvolume census last year of the commitment authority of the Community of our country , which still uses the word in an attempt to save a piece of the world. What do literature, for which - as he wrote his mentor John Hidden, a sort of volunteer teacher for the Irpinia-author, "priority should be given the maximum individual things, against the abstractions of the experts and the phrases of current" .

Arminio is always in search of landscapes, human or natural. Dowsing sift them, relentlessly, without fear. Appointment, he warns, is indignant. He makes a battle against cynicism to the very innards: "There's always more to do when we do something for others," he says in a passage emblematico.E even if its center of gravity is to anthropological Bisaccia, not only about Irpinia , South, or the whole of Italy: the vision is global, Western, interweaving between rural culture, modernity and technology village, a vision of a capitalism that "by dint of expansion has become very small." Subversive mild speech and thought, lancia un j’accuse virulento contro i politici narcisi e ciechi, specchio sensibile di un declino sociale e morale, ma con la speranzae il sogno di un nuovo umanesimo, fatto di comunità «che vadano oltre il profilo dei singoli campanili e dei singoli comuni», e di nuove agorà.