“I feel like I was Neapolitan even before I was born, as the portuguese Borges says of his Buenos Aires. Naples, today I would have liked to be there and enjoy this celebration that seems eternal.
To feel once again, just once, that everything is a pretext for celebration, an excuse to rejoice and chase away melancholy, to look for reasons to remember that we are thrown into this life to breathe and seek light."
So on his Twitter account, Roberto Saviano, writer and big fan of Napoli, on the day of the scudetto celebration. “Today I would have liked to be cheerful, this is what the scudetto is for: to have on the agenda the task of being cheerful, as a duty for everyone.
Happy for one more day. Going to Pignasecca and Pasquale Scura, crawling between Tribunali and Mezzocannone. Suddenly emerging in Mergellina, renewing the wonder of the sea, identical, that you have known since you learned to stand upright on your legs, and yet when you have it on the horizon you discover it new”, Saviano writes again.
"I would have liked to be cheerful but I am not, distance today has the taste of irremediable exile, of banishment, and yet it would be enough just to live and be there easily, if my life still had something easy. But in the end I am persuaded - like the poet - that one only possesses what has been lost", concludes Saviano.
Article published on 4 June 2023 - 15:30
How I understand you and share your sadness. For me it was different because after a life of work partly abroad, and of sentimental illusions often transformed into violence because of my work autonomy, returned to the place of birth to assist the last survivors of my family of peaceful anti-fascists, systematically decimated by a "public" health service in private hands, I realized that for decades the territory has always been managed by fascists under various party acronyms. Always the same ones from fathers to sons. Each for himself. There is no community of solidarity, indeed, if they see you in difficulty they prepare to feast on the little you leave. You can speak freely and confide only in the stray animals and the trees that have not yet been cut down to cement the territory that is located on the Pontine coast. Ciao Roberto. I LOVE YOU