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Francis and "The Gate"

Magda Szabó

The book tells the story of a friendship difficult and conflict that gradually grows between two people: the writer and narrator, "the old" Emerencia, two people who are the opposite of the other. The novel is a continuing fragility of the counterpoint between the writer and the enormous strength of character Emerencia.
Emerencia is a caretaker and family collaboration, which looms tireless worker for his great dignity: are you looking for information on his prospective employer, saying "I do not wash my clothes in the first that happens." Dignity does not depend on the work you do or social rank, but it builds and defends itself.
The world of ideas - the values \u200b\u200band opinions - not to Emerencia by family education, school culture and religion, but from the terrible school of life that has marked. And 'anti-intellectual, it is against all institutions, is Manichean: distinguishes between those who held the broom in hand and those who do get laid.
Love, as understood by Emerencia, but there is no intrusion, empathy, compassion (Pot of friendship), even to the risk of life (hides German, Russian, lawyer) or extreme impairment of himself (masquerading as his daughter Evy Grossman). Love that transcends humans and animals almost witchcraft captivates her neighbors, who reciprocate (anthropology): the heifer Viola, Viola dogs, cats.
custody of her world behind a door that no one is allowed to cross. Reveals her story to the writer as a growing mutual affection. And the writer will be the one asked to cross that door, as the supreme demonstration of affection, Emerencia when he realizes that his life is nearing its conclusion.
But Schopenhauer says that the love relationship is an aggression which created potential hazards. So a great love match a great betrayal: Emerencia, sick, is betrayed by its writer, which will force the door forcing her to continue living against his will and design.
At the end of the novel seems to me that it requires a strongly basic question: to accept the suicide of Poletti, after having given the old lady all the loving care and friendship humanly possible? Let Emerencia die in excrement? Or the opposite prevent the suicide of Poletti and force Emerencia to live?
On the one hand there is a fragile and anxious writer who seems to me represents all human weaknesses and contradictions, and secondly there Emerencia that despite the harshness of nature knows wrap di autentico e compassionevole amore la anziana Polett di cui rispetta la scelta suprema che aiuta a compiere con dignità . Quella stessa Emerenc fa per sé una altrettanto netta scelta di vita che gli altri non rispettano calpestando la sua dignità.
Ognuno ha da fare le sue scelte. Da parte mia non ho dubbi da che parte schierarmi: con la affascinante Emerenc.

a cura di Lucia e Alberto

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MAGDA SZABO'

L'ultimo incontro - prima della pausa estiva - ha visto assoluta protagonista la brava scrittrice Ungherese Magda Szabò con due fra i suoi più beautiful and now deservedly famous novels.

"The Ballad of Iza" - publisher Einaudi

When her husband dies Vince, a judge during the years of Hungarian fascism had suffered serious injuries, the old lady is Szocs finds himself completely alone in the modest family home in the Hungarian countryside. It is then that the daughter Iza, a successful doctor who lives alone in the rigor of Budapest, he decided to bring her mother to live with it. But in the new house, a perfect and comfortable as it wants to place Iza, Mrs. Szocs is not at all comfortable, everything is too cold and lifeless, just like Iza. And so, little by little, fragile woman in a closed impenetrable silence, fading inexorably until the day he decides to return to his village to make an unexpected gesture, and liberating.

"Port" - publisher Einaudi

Two women separated, two different lives that collide. Magda Szabó describes the strange relationship for twenty years had elapsed between her and her maid. A rough woman, ageless, with its principles and bizarre, reserved, and the secrets jealously hidden behind the "door" closed forever. If, between the husband and the woman Magda There is sympathy immediately, otherwise the relationship between the two women is unpredictable, made up of quarrels, reconciliations, not said. Gradually their relationship is stretched, the narrator Emerencia to vote, their bond becomes exclusive, demanding ...

The drafting of the two works came after many years: first in 1963 and the second in 1987. The reader can not escape attention that MS has evolved and refined writing is that the definition of the characters, and indeed that Emerencia his mistress, writer (hint autobiographical) are at the absolute center of the story, while in the first Iza and her mom stand out, yes, but it is more collective, there are other figures and other stories that could have been developed in part to be able to give the plot to other documents.

The two novels have a common denominator represented by the tragic relationship that turns into a conflict between two women: Iza and her mom in the first and Emerencia and his mistress, in the second. In both there is a strong character (and Emerencia Iza) that rises over the other woman on the other hand more fragile character (respectively the writer = housewife and mother of Iza). The fact remains that there are feelings of love and / or close friends.

Iza has been likened to a soldier who fought / a as a child / in order to defend herself and her family from attacks in the world. Everything has achieved is the result of his stubbornness, not least the beautiful and prestigious achievement of the spa built in the hometown of Antal, her husband. E 'in the relationship with his loved ones but on the contrary fail. Antal leaves her and her mother, once a widow will be deeply disappointed and astonished at the pragmatism with which Iza has shaped a new life in Buda, which also wants to comply with his elderly mother, uprooted from a quiet provincial life.

In "The door there is a more mature MS and the figures of the writer and Emerencia are improved and if the epilogue in the first novel has an aura of fatality in the accident mortal stumbles in which the mother of Iza, but in this there is the certainty that the old home, sentitasi betrayed by the person in whom he had found a port of refuge after the storms of its troubled existence, leaves voluntarily to die. Magda was to defend from foreign eyes as the door had for years taken away from foreign eyes the secret world of Emerencia? at the cost of giving up the formal consecration ceremony that proclaimed the writer to fame?

With this rich material, the discussion was lively even been reduced to the ranks due to the first outward toward the sea and mountains. As is customary each formed two fronts for or against women defined strong of each novel, considered the primary cause of the bitter end of both stories.

We will meet after the holidays Wednesday, September 23 after reading, written by Paul

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"Embers" by ... FRANCESCO

's the story of an intense friendship youth degraded into its opposite with onset of maturity. In a "'felix Austria", but already on the brink of its dissolution, the young Henrich belongs by birth to the wealthy nobility, and it lives as a natural vocation to its role as a military officer in the glittering world of the imperial court. The family of the young Konrad has instead sacrificed everything to ensure that the child can become part of that world. Konrad has natural talent but not suited to a soldier's sensitivity and musical inclinations, he loves the culture and reading. But this inner wealth rather than existential give depth to his life, secretly envy turns to hate the kindness which his friend Heinrich has always surrounded the beautiful world of high society, where he moves, however, with rigid where is coldness and formality and distance. The situation is worsening with the emergence of a secret understanding with the loving wife of his friend Krisztina Henrich has elected its own inclinations. In the semi-darkness of dawn to hunt Konrad point the gun into the neck of the friend who is on the trajectory of a deer, but did not dare to shoot because he is a coward. " The tragic romantic whirlpool sucks the rest of the existence of the three characters in a romantic fate of solitude. Konrad disappears going to sink, into voluntary exile, tropical hell of Malaysia. Henrich retires to the hunting lodge of his estate. Krisztina has remained in the castle, is allowed to die in a few years after the disappointment of no return of Konrad and the silence of Henrich. Forty years later Konrad old reappeared at the castle one last time to see the places and people where and with whom he lived that one season of passion whose embers continued to flare in his long exile. Henrich, old, has waited a lifetime to get answers to the betrayal of his friend and his wife on which, in solitude, has long pondered.
whole novel is a long sequence of defeats. Henrich fail because he pours his emotional charge about people (Konrad, Krisztina) with which it can strike the spark of mutual devotion, friendship or love, because they lack the affinity with them. Choose them and attracts the world with its profusion of its assets, but other than him and he will not be able to penetrate into their secret and lose both. Konrad fails because it undergoes choices of others that require a role that he lives as a profession and not as a vocation. And once formed his character suffers from a desire to be different from what it is. The emotional tension drags him with envy and hatred which he reaches on his friend, at least intentionally, the extreme act of murder. It autopunisce of his treachery, for forty years living in an environment that removes all intellectual and artistic substance.
The book is dense with philosophical considerations about the substance of friendship, the meaning of the killing, on the inevitability of his fate, on belonging to its own history, land, society and culture. The autobiographical reflections of a prolific writer who has suffered the 'exclusion and even physical separation from his land and his cultural world are obvious. That's intense nostalgia inspired the sublime pages of the environment in places, in the castle and the enchantment of nature, that shine like the embers never soothed vivid in the minds of its protagonists.

by Lucy and Albert