MI CHIEDI PERCHÈ MAI E QUANDO GIORGIO BASSANI Mi chiedi perché mai e quando ti rispondo che è stato così accorgermi semplicemente in un tardo pomeriggio qualsiasi poniamo – giacché non è nemmeno detto – d’ottobre del modo come la luce del sole colpiva il roseo impervio fianco sud-ovest di palazzo Sacchetti – colpiva e al tempo stesso bagnava la luce non so se mi segui…- accorgermi delle foglioline nere e aguzze del rampicante – l’aria era mossa capisci? – percorse a tratti su su per il tramite di oscuri rameggi da una specie di reiterata scarica elettrica la quale contemporaneamente fosse infusa chissa come d’autentico e liquido oro e aver voglia di schianto dopo anni infiniti di ridere e insieme del suo perfetto contrario |
YOU ASK ME WHY AND WHEN GIORGIO BASSANI You ask me why and when I say it happened just like that noticing quite simply late one afternoon any let’s say – since it is hardly certain– in October for the way the light hit the reddish impenetrable south-east side of Palazzo Sacchetti – hit and at the same time showered with light I wonder if you understand …- noticing there were tiny sharp black leaves on the vine – the air was stirred you see? – run through in places upwards along dark boughs driven by a sort of iterative electric discharge which contemporaneously was as if infused by an authentic and liquid gold and wanting all of a sudden after endless years to laugh and also the exact opposite Translation by ©Matilda Colarossi |
Giorgio Bassani was born in Bologna on March 4, 1916, into an upper middle-class Jewish family that had lived in Ferrara for many generations. He was a novelist, poet, essayist, editor, and international intellectual. He is most famous for his book Il giardino dei Finzi Contini [Garden of the Finzi Contini]. The poem is taken from the collection Epitaffio, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1974 (pp 38)
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