He picked up the American Lessons Calvin after baseball, I came across an account interesting, especially for those who had read the previous post (and the corresponding book.) The pass is in the fifth and sixth paragraph of the second lesson, which Calvin dedicated to the theme (this is not the central) of Fast.
" The manuscript was on his desk in perfect order, each conference in a transparent folder, all collected in a rigid folder, ready to be put in the suitcase."
"I'll start by telling an old legend. The Emperor Charlemagne in his old age fell in love with a German girl. The barons of the court were very concerned to see that the sovereign, all taken from his longing for love, forget and neglect the affairs of the royal dignity of the Empire. When she died suddenly, the dignitaries drew a sigh of relief, but not for long, because Charlemagne's love did not die with her. The Emperor did bring the embalmed corpse in his room, did not want to break away. Archbishop Turpin, terrified by this gruesome passion, he suspected a spell and wanted to examine the corpse. Hidden under the tongue dead, he found a ring with a precious stone. From the moment the ring was in the hands of Turpin, to Charlemagne hastened to bury the corpse, poured out his love on the person of the archbishop. Turpin, to escape a situation quell'imbarazzante threw the ring in Lake Constance. Charlemagne became enamored of the lake and did not want to move away from its shores.
lessons, you know, were written to be kept as lectures at Harvard in the academic year 1985-1986. Calvin, however, died September 18, 1985 in Siena, and do not ever read them. Curious, before we start the story from which the lessons take their name (when he died, Calvin had not yet given the Italian title in the conferences - will be the wife to do so and explain the reason for choosing the Note ntroduttiva) : "If I decided to finally Memos is that last summer because of Calvin, Peter Cited came to see him often in the morning and the first question he took was: How are American lessons? And there was talk of American lessons. "
" The manuscript was on his desk in perfect order, each conference in a transparent folder, all collected in a rigid folder, ready to be put in the suitcase."
publishing the text of the lesson from the outset, to put in a song (who may wish to jump to the last two paragraphs):
"I'll start by telling an old legend. The Emperor Charlemagne in his old age fell in love with a German girl. The barons of the court were very concerned to see that the sovereign, all taken from his longing for love, forget and neglect the affairs of the royal dignity of the Empire. When she died suddenly, the dignitaries drew a sigh of relief, but not for long, because Charlemagne's love did not die with her. The Emperor did bring the embalmed corpse in his room, did not want to break away. Archbishop Turpin, terrified by this gruesome passion, he suspected a spell and wanted to examine the corpse. Hidden under the tongue dead, he found a ring with a precious stone. From the moment the ring was in the hands of Turpin, to Charlemagne hastened to bury the corpse, poured out his love on the person of the archbishop. Turpin, to escape a situation quell'imbarazzante threw the ring in Lake Constance. Charlemagne became enamored of the lake and did not want to move away from its shores.
This legend comes from a book on magic "is stated even more succinctly than I did it in a notebook of unpublished notes of the French Romantic writer Barbey d'Aurevilly. You can read the notes of the Pleiade edition of the works of Barbey d'Aurevilly (I, p. 1315). Ever since I read it, it continued to recur to my mind as if the spell of the ring continues to work through the story.
try to explain why a story like this can fascinate. There is a succession of events outside the norm that all s'incatenano to one another, an old man falling in love for a young, obsessive necrophiliac, homosexual leanings, and in the end it all calms down a melancholy contemplation: the old king engrossed at the sight of the lake. " Charlemagne, the Attachée vue sur son lac de Constance, amoureux de l'abîme caché," writes Barbeyd'Aurevilly the passage of the novel refers to which the note refers to the legend. (Old Mistress Une ).
to hold together this chain of events there is a link word, the word "love" or "passion", which establishes a continuity between different forms of attraction, and there is a link narrative, the magic ring, which establishes a relationship between the various episodes logical cause and effect. The race toward an object of desire that does not exist, an absence, a lack, symbolized by the empty circle of the ring, is given more by the pace of the story narrated by the facts. Just as the whole story is crossed by the feeling of death that seems to struggle frantically clinging to Charlemagne ties of life, an eagerness which then subsides in the contemplation of the lake.
The real protagonist of the story is, however, the magic ring, because they are the ones that determine the movements of the characters, and why is the link that establishes the relationship between them. Around the object is formed as a magical force field which is the field of the story. We can say that the magic item is a recognizable sign that makes explicit the connection between people or between events: a narrative that we could trace the history in the Norse sagas and romances, and that continues to occur in the poems of the Italian Renaissance. In the Orlando Furioso witnessing an endless series of exchanges of swords, shields, helmets, horses, each with characteristic properties, so the plot could be described by the change of ownership of a number of objects with certain powers, which determine the relations between a number of characters. In the realistic fiction
Mambrino's helmet becomes the bowl of a barber, but does not lose importance or significance, just as important are all items that Robinson Crusoe shipwrecked and saved by those he works with his hands. We would say that from the moment an object appears in a narrative, we charge a special force, as it becomes the hub of a magnetic field, a node of a network of invisible. The symbolism of an object can be more or less explicit, but always exists. We could say that in a narrative an object is always a magical object. "
try to explain why a story like this can fascinate. There is a succession of events outside the norm that all s'incatenano to one another, an old man falling in love for a young, obsessive necrophiliac, homosexual leanings, and in the end it all calms down a melancholy contemplation: the old king engrossed at the sight of the lake. " Charlemagne, the Attachée vue sur son lac de Constance, amoureux de l'abîme caché," writes Barbeyd'Aurevilly the passage of the novel refers to which the note refers to the legend. (Old Mistress Une ).
to hold together this chain of events there is a link word, the word "love" or "passion", which establishes a continuity between different forms of attraction, and there is a link narrative, the magic ring, which establishes a relationship between the various episodes logical cause and effect. The race toward an object of desire that does not exist, an absence, a lack, symbolized by the empty circle of the ring, is given more by the pace of the story narrated by the facts. Just as the whole story is crossed by the feeling of death that seems to struggle frantically clinging to Charlemagne ties of life, an eagerness which then subsides in the contemplation of the lake.
The real protagonist of the story is, however, the magic ring, because they are the ones that determine the movements of the characters, and why is the link that establishes the relationship between them. Around the object is formed as a magical force field which is the field of the story. We can say that the magic item is a recognizable sign that makes explicit the connection between people or between events: a narrative that we could trace the history in the Norse sagas and romances, and that continues to occur in the poems of the Italian Renaissance. In the Orlando Furioso witnessing an endless series of exchanges of swords, shields, helmets, horses, each with characteristic properties, so the plot could be described by the change of ownership of a number of objects with certain powers, which determine the relations between a number of characters. In the realistic fiction
Mambrino's helmet becomes the bowl of a barber, but does not lose importance or significance, just as important are all items that Robinson Crusoe shipwrecked and saved by those he works with his hands. We would say that from the moment an object appears in a narrative, we charge a special force, as it becomes the hub of a magnetic field, a node of a network of invisible. The symbolism of an object can be more or less explicit, but always exists. We could say that in a narrative an object is always a magical object. "
From Italo Calvino, Six Memos . Six memos for the next millennium. (With introductory note by Esther Calvino) Einaudi 2009.
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