Unexpected this post, because it comes outside of all the programs I had done, but you know i love at first sight there's always unexpected, and it was this time too.
As always happens to me, out of ignorance, a twist of fate, or for other reasons which I can not think, even today I am late, but added, that's what really matters. Check for my walk all crooked and shady, lost among the fog of the season and the intellectual, to present a MASTERPIECE
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, illustrated by Tullio Pericoli, Editions Adelphi, 2007
The tracks in the book were selected by Anna Maria Lorusso.
Actually the original idea of \u200b\u200bthe book we Olivetti, which commissioned and printed an edition limited edition set to selected customers, they were the eighties, between 1982 and 1984 and, as told Dangers in the same preface, he found himself in a difficult transition, divided between the illustrations for newspapers and the world of art galleries, including the designer-illustrator and painter. The beautiful story of the artist, the way this book explains how to explain it was helpful to find an artistic unity that until then was blocked, denied by the dichotomy of expression that he wanted the world to the designer and painter of source separated. As he himself tells us, Robinson Crusoe, which included the two worlds of expression, at the time, were the subject of his research: the man, the subject of the work for newspapers, and nature, a favorite subject for paintings. In Robinson Crusoe the two elements merge and mingle almost, and this work of aggregation is evident in the tables that illustrate the novel.
In this new version of Adelphi, there are a lot higher than all'oroginale tables printed by Olivetti, which show a great interest in research.
my only gripe, if a critique is given me to do, is the almost total absence of the character of Friday, although Defoe's novel has its own importance, and I'd like to see represented in the same way as Friday is the expression of the island as trees, fish, birds and green peaks. Friday is the savage Caliban's Shakespeare's Tempest, is the point of collision and fusion between man and nature: the archetype of the Wild told around a strand of literature which, in my humble opinion, deserved more attention. It is true that the same dangers he tells us what to Robinson and the Island are the two main characters of the novel poiché mezzo perfetto per portare avanti quella fusione fra giornale e galleria d'arte, disegnatore e pittore, uomo e natura, dando all'uno caratteristiche dell'altro e viceversa. Vero anche che nel romanzo di Defoe, sebbene sia importante, Venerdì ha comunque un ruolo minore rispetto a Robinson, ben lungi dalla bellissima reintepretazione di Michel Tournier in Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique in cui egli ha un ruolo da comprimario, se non quello di voce della coscienza del bianco Robinson.
Ad ogni modo, questa assenza non va ad intaccare la bellezza di questo libro che rimane per me un capolavoro di rara bellezza.
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