SALERNO - Writing, happiness, politics, the pandemic, the future: these are some of the themes that the writer Erri De Luca addressed today with the Impact giffoners! during the # Giffoni50Plus course in Giffoni Valle Piana (Salerno). "I have vaccinated myself and I use a mask - he said about the controversy relating to the restrictions imposed by the health emergency - because it is a manifestation of civil liability. As long as no one touches Article 21 of the Constitution, everyone's freedom is guaranteed. The limitations dictated by Covid have nothing to do with the concept of freedom ". To those who asked him if his work had helped him to know hidden sides of himself, De Luca said: "It helped me to have read many books, they made me understand many things, but not with the system ofpsychological introspection, because more than looking at what I have inside I like to look out the window. For this I love the pre-Socratic philosophers, their curiosity to explain the world with a feeling of wonder towards beauty. Then came Socrates with his "know thyself" which doesn't interest me. I honestly consider it a dogmatic prescription, I like to know myself in the world and throughout the world ".I like to know myself in the world and across the world ".I like to know myself in the world and across the world ".
His relationship with writing is almost unique: "I am not an employee, I do not write every day, I do it when I feel it because it is a moment of happiness and not a constraint. I believe that those who do it to pay the bills in the end will will find in the bill: the public is not stupid and they understand it. And then I think I am among the few who still write in pen, in a lined notebook. Today nobody does it anymore. My hand is the conductor and her gait governs the whole sentence. My thoughts don't push her, they have a slow gait that flows from line to line. The only one I know who does this is my friend Mauro Corona ". "The more you read - he reiterated - the more you become the owner of your own language: this is the only way to feed the antibodies against false information, it is a matter of personal hygiene.I think the reason I started writing is because I had communication difficulties as a teenager. If you are a sociable person, writing can become an accessory, otherwise it is a necessity. So for me it was the way to try to overcome my occlusions. But it was not the written words that freed me, but rather the recovery of sociality, speaking to my generation, the one I found in the streets to block them to claim rights. Well, that generation turned me inside out like a glove and allowed me to belong to a community ".So for me it was the way to try to overcome my occlusions. But it was not the written words that freed me, but rather the recovery of sociality, speaking to my generation, the one I found in the streets to block them to claim rights. Well, that generation turned me inside out like a glove and allowed me to belong to a community ".So for me it was the way to try to overcome my occlusions. But it was not the written words that freed me, but rather the recovery of sociality, speaking to my generation, the one I found in the streets to block them to claim rights. Well, that generation turned me inside out like a glove and allowed me to belong to a community ".
Returning to the current situation and how he imagines the post-pandemic, Erri De Luca explained: "I imagine it will not end. In previous times, pandemics were exhausted due to the extinction of the virus that could no longer circulate. It was the same for the plague of '300, which took away a third of the population. When we lock ourselves up at home, the epidemic does not circulate, but we live in a world that cannot afford it, so the virus will continue to circulate with all its variants. the fact that we have inaugurated the era of permanent epidemics. And the conversion can only be achieved by those who are fifteen today. This generation is already the future and will have the responsibility to start the repair economy after the damage accumulated so far. Giffoni for this:it is the ideal place to listen to the kids ".