{"id":14318,"date":"2016-11-21T13:58:46","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T12:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.theeatculture.com\/en\/?p=14318"},"modified":"2016-11-21T13:58:28","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T12:58:28","slug":"the-book-on-the-nightstand-the-art-of-being-frail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.theeatculture.com\/en\/the-book-on-the-nightstand-the-art-of-being-frail\/","title":{"rendered":"The book on the nightstand: The Art of Being Frail"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finding words “art” and “frail” in a sentence <\/span>with positive attitude<\/span> is as much strange <\/span>as<\/span> talking of a durable happiness, Alessandro D’Avenia has tried in his new book The Art of Being Frail<\/strong>.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>It so happens that a poet, that in memory of nearly all high school students is remembered as pessimistic and unfortunate (a loser in short), for the first time is chosen as a partner from which to draw inspiration to lead <\/span>an<\/span> happy life: Giacomo Leopardi.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

D’Avenia is strucked and he strucks everybody with reflections that show us, in this timeless exchange of letters, a side of the <\/span>Recanati<\/span> poet that until now no one has ever told. It\u2019s a <\/span>piece of work hardly classifiable<\/span> but out of any classification (<\/span>what<\/span> does it matter if it is a <\/span>mistery novel<\/span> or a Bildungsroman when it speaks of the life of any of us!), it looks for beauty even when <\/span>it meets deception<\/span>, weakness, pain, loss. It\u2019s passion to stir Leopardi, that suffering<\/strong> – as we remember the Latin etymology – that we no longer <\/strong><\/span>feel to achieve<\/strong> what we like, what makes us happy.<\/strong> If it\u2019s true that we don\u2019t passionate about it, we don\u2019t dream, and <\/span>in front of the<\/span> obstacles we stop or prefer to work around them, D’Avenia \/ Leopardi talks about the art of repair: when we choose to throw what we don\u2019t like anymore or which <\/span>has broken<\/span> and we buy something new, because to fix it would mean leaving visible the cracks, we don\u2019t see that “behind that crack hides the light.” If we\u2019re weak, perhaps we only need to <\/strong><\/span>be<\/strong> “handle carefully”,<\/strong> to give us that attention can make us feel loved, precious, to trust each other and to let someone think to take care of us.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>The book by Alessandro D’Avenia deserves to be read no matter what I might write <\/span>about it<\/span>, <\/span>for this<\/span> – if I <\/span>didn\u2019t convince you<\/span> \u2013 I\u2019ll conclude with the author’s words: <\/span><\/p>\n

these pages contain no simple solutions, <\/span>because life is never<\/span> simple<\/span>, and was not to Leopardi in particular, but they suggest <\/span>how we could be just a bit simpler.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From today appearing frail it might be easier<\/span>. Thanks prof. D’Avenia!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Time of the reading:\u00a0<\/strong>three nights in the moonlight<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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Ph. Sara Cartelli<\/em>
\n\u00a9 The Eat Culture<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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