Preview of the essay about "Sul Crinale dell'Utopia" by Vincenzo Belluomini soon on L'Immaginazione
It is a story really happened, at least in part, as told by Francesco Belluomini in his most recent novel, On the crest of utopia. A story that involves, in parallel, two characters, a Viareggio, Eugenio Del Sarto, and a character belonging to a geographically far away, a Transcaucasian, Fiodor Leviskilyj, both placed on a scenario historically and ideologically common and rich in enzymes and contradictions, that of war and the advent of fascism with its dictatorial degeneration, in the first case, that of Russia and the Soviet Revolution and the years of the progressive "betrayal" of the starting values in the second.
Real character , singular figure of " subversive " by the human characteristics and ideological characteristics, Eugenio Del Sarto ( in historical reality , Eugenio Del Magro ): born in 1887 and raised in Viareggio in Versilia in the early decades of the twentieth century , brings to his work an employee of the Royal Railways his political faith of fervent supporter of the ideas of social justice and equality , embodied in the program of the newborn Italian Communist Party of Gramsci and Bordiga , whose section Viareggio becomes the founder , to the point of jeopardizing with his political activism , along with his job , the safety and security of the same family in the name of his political beliefs , finding himself a fugitive and politically persecuted by fascism at first and then also from the same communism , which is under the illusion of being able to contribute to changing its atrocious deviations .
Invented although historically reliable in its characteristics , however , the other , the Transcaucasian Leviskilyj , originating Kirovabad , the Caspian Sea , which moves on a scenario geographically accurate than ever and within historical coordinates that are those that affect the Russia in the early decades of the '900. After a difficult childhood in the years of dramatic sunset of Czarist absolutism , the young and restless Fyodor finds himself caught up in the name of ideals that turns strangers to his convictions , in events older than him ( the Bolshevik Revolution , the Civil War with its burden of deaths and horrors , the expropriation of land ) , until it begins to gradually become aware with growing dismay.
They share it , as you can see , their being " against " their battle in the name of moral freedom , even before politics, and their allegiance to a human idea of power. This is why Fyodor , guilty of desertion by the Red Army , finds himself in a gulag , to Severo Vostocnyj , the Caspian Sea , right where we also find Eugenio Del Sarto, who arrived in the USSR as a journalist , you are dreaming to help to better the system .
Two stories , then, two destinies that intertwine and literally proceed in parallel, in this novel - which is an authentic document , and that tells Belluomini floor with style and linear chronicle , almost holding and controlling emotion, to bring out the paradigmatic value of certain utopias that were involved ( and deluded ) causing them to so many choices dramatically proved unsuccessful , the distance between utopia and reality.And a story really happened , at least in part, as told by Francis Belluomini in its most recent novel , On the crest of utopia. A story that involves , in parallel, two characters, a Viareggio , Eugenio Del Sarto, and a character belonging to a geographically far away, a Transcaucasian , Fiodor Leviskilyj , both placed on a scenario historically and ideologically common and rich in enzymes and contradictions , that of war and the advent of fascism with its dictatorial degeneration , in the first case , that of Russia and the Soviet Revolution and the years of the progressive "betrayal" of the starting values in the second.
Vincenzo Guarracino