Each of us always experiences something that will then lead us to a very specific destination." This is the central sentence found in the preface to the debut book 'October 2014' by writer Luisa Del Prete, which will be presented at Officina Milena in Caserta, on Via San Carlo at 18 pm. The author's experience has been transformed into thoughts on paper that truly had a very specific destination: that of the final creation of a book. A collection of numbered thoughts, starting from thought 0 which, according to the author, is a sort of archetype, a bit like the origin of everything. "I like to think that everything must start from 0 as a sign of rebirth and a new beginning. For this reason, I didn't start the book from number 1 (as I usually do), but from 0, to increasingly emphasize this change and this desire to overturn everything." A title, again, unusual and captivating. A month, October, often associated by singer-songwriter Lucio Dalla with melancholy, a condition that, not surprisingly, often becomes a common thread throughout the collection of thoughts. "October 2014 was born," says Luisa Del Prete, "on a monotonous autumn day when my father Antonio gave me, out of nowhere, a diary. I began to write in it in particular situations, without realizing that I was, unknowingly, creating something more. And so I wrote these thoughts, until June 2017, when I wrote my last thought and read it at my high school graduation exam. After that day, I began to write a completely different kind of thing, leaving those thoughts in a drawer, without any sense of purpose. In April/May 2018, after careful personal reflection that led to many changes, I decided that these thoughts needed to be given voice and that there was no point in letting them gather dust. So I took them, organized them, and created this book. I titled it that way,” he continues, “because it is the beginning and the end of everything. The end of something too important to me and the unwitting beginning of the drafting of these “hard-earned papers” that would later become this something more. The magic of seeing these two things come together is surreal.”
The flow of thoughts is increasingly meticulous, the writer's perception of reality is vivid and entirely reported in her writing, trying to reproduce all the events I encountered as the days slipped through my hands. The detailed descriptions of the scenes greatly facilitate the reader's imaginative process. They address not only love issues, but also current affairs, such as unemployment, which, together with anxiety, seems to be the 'tumor' of our society. These themes and topics are, moreover, written with another literary device, namely irony. This is no coincidence either, but fits perfectly into the autobiographical design that the author wanted to leave to her readers. "Irony has always been part of my life," says Luisa. In everything I do, even the most profound and touching, there is always something tragicomic inside. I think it's a bit of a metaphor for life, from every point of view." All these pieces that make up “October 2014” come together to a single, futuristic exhortation: revolution. Title of the last thought 24, the revolution Luisa talks about is of a literary type, where culture can save ourselves and in turn, the world around us. The writer's revolution had as its first weapon the birth of her debut book with which she can fight to make what she has defined as a "paper world" increasingly known. "I strongly opposed the phrase 'culture doesn't make you eat'," the author continues, "because I firmly believe in the power of literature. It is very difficult to enter this world. We live in an age where all the best things seem to have already been written, said, or engraved. But what if that wasn't really the case? I'll try. Writing, regardless of what it has led me to now, is and always will be fundamental to me. That moment when everything around me falls silent and I begin an intimate game with my pen and a sheet of paper." The thoughts of “October 2014” were born in this splendid game, each one separate from the other, where every person, every moment, and every emotion comes to life. Even that long-awaited 'you' always seems to arrive, where everything seems to run through a piece of one's own personal life. Luisa's invitation to dare and break the mould, to remember and preserve the memory of others and of things, despite the harshness of reality, which is however imbued with hope. "My dear colleagues, dare," Luisa del Prete states and concludes. I truly invite each of you with all my heart to dare because in this world you have to, as a friend of mine said, break glasses to create something worthy of attention. We need to think outside the box and create this little army that isn't afraid of the voices around us that say the paper world is over. As long as there is at least one of us who moves at least one other person, it will always be a victory."
'October 2014', the literary debut of Luisa del Prete
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Article published on January 2, 2019 - 19:10 AM - Regina Ada Scarico
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