SA prestigious literary and cultural award was held in Salerno last Saturday, organized by the association La Piazzetta. It took place on Saturday 8 June in the fantastic setting of the Casa del Combattente in Salerno, a building of considerable architectural value with an unmistakable Liberty style.
The award, one of the most important moments in the cultural life of Salerno, has now been an event that has been taking place for over twenty years and that brings together all the arts. This year, in the narrative section, a budding writer stood out, Alfonso Maria Di Somma, a young student at the “Galdi De Filippis” classical high school in Cava de' Tirreni, who proposed a short essay set on the Grappa Massif during the First World War and whose protagonist is a young soldier, Alessandro, not yet seventeen, who is harshly confronted with the barbarity of war tempered by the ideology of the regime. The young soldier finds himself faced with the dilemma of the internal law when his commander orders him to kill one of his very young Austrian prisoners. The protagonist, under the fuse of his officer, decides according to his own moral law. To the captain's question: what do you decide? ... if you don't kill him I'll kill you, the young soldier replies: I've decided: the starry sky above me the moral law within me.
Article published on 12 June 2019 - 18:38
