Nevertheless, the crashing effects of human actions have a transcendental impact in the development of those laws. In the same dialogue, Tiresias declares to Oedipus that for someone blind everything represents a crashing point, thus suggesting that both the natural laws and the divine are realms beyond the human comprehension. Space and Time, as Pavese eloquently establishes, were ruling over the world even before divinity had captured the human imagination. But Gods can easily annoy, make things get close or push them away. Things used to happen – now, under the rule of Gods, everything has become words, illusions, fear. Space was already everywhere, bleeding, enjoying, he was the only God – when Time hadn’t been born yet.
To Oedipus’ question of why are Gods useful, Tiresias replies: There is a glimpse of the complex relationship among nature, Gods, and humans in the dialogue “The Blind,” in which Oedipus and Tiresias engage in conversation. Human activities, as the theories behind the Anthropocene suggest, have enacted such an impact that humans have to be set apart from Gods for the sake of life. The divine law of nature appears as the new force that organizes human destiny. Water, wind, stone and clouds are no longer yours, you can’t use them anymore by procreating and doing what you call living. They have imposed a limit to you, humans. Here the law is snow, gale, and shadows.” Later, Nephele states prophetically: Nephele tells Ixion with an admonitory tone, “There is a law, Ixion, which we all must obey,” to which Ixion replies, “That law does not reach this realm, Nephele. In the first dialogue, between Ixion ¾the son of Ares¾ and Nephele ¾a cloud nymph¾ there is a glimpse of what has been labelled in recent years as the Anthropocene, a geological time period in which humans have irreversibly altered Earth’s biological systems.
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In Dialoghi con Leuc ò, published in 1947 by Einaudi, Pavese departs from a romantic vision of the human reality to compile a series of dialogues among Greek mythological characters and natural elements. However, Pavese was not always hopeless about his understanding of life as in Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi. After all, we are to spend more time dead than alive, or at least that is what until the early decades of the third millennia we still know. It further alludes that, “per tutti la morte ha uno sguardo” (“Death has a glance for everyone”), which is to say that once the inevitable end approaches the essence of what we are will belong to eternity. The fact that Pavese creates an image of death that is sleepless and deaf remarks that even though we continuously attempt to bargain for more time in this life, the nature of death implies that ¾no matter how we try to extend our finitude¾ the only certainty we posses is that of dying. The poem suggests that, right at the time of waking up, the whisper of death is right next to us as an inherent element of our human condition.
In the most popular poem of the collection, “Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi,” Pavese draws an image that evokes the nature of being alive while also containing a finite number of time within ourselves: Leafing through the pages of Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi, one can fathom both the melancholy and the sense of hope that the poetry collection transmits. Then his body surrendered to an overdose of barbiturates. Pavese’s last diary entry declared, as a fatidic statement, “Non scriverò più” (“I will write no more”). On the desk of the room, Pavese left his final poetry collection, Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi ( Death will Come and (She) will Have Your Eyes) published posthumously in 1951. A fast Google search revealed that Cesare Pavese, one of my favourite Italian authors, had died precisely at the Hotel Roma.Ģ020 marks the seventieth anniversary of the suicide of Cesare Pavese, on August 27, 1950, in the room 346 of the Hotel Roma. Italy is by far the country that I have explored the most, and having spent so much time in manifold hotels throughout Italy, the style of the balconies of the hotel remained in my memory as I made my way back to the place where I was staying in downtown Torino. Crank’s books here: The Invisible Militia / Testament / Utopía poética, Impotencia amorosa e imaginación temporalĪ few years ago, while wandering in the streets of Torino, I suddenly stopped by the frontispiece of the Hotel Roma, not far from the train station, which attracted my attention for its somewhat atypical architectural style.
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