Francesco Belluomini - poet and novelist as prolific as significant - founded in 1981 Camaiore Literary Award for poetry, which is still president. His latest novel On the crest of utopia tells the story of two characters seemingly very different, nationality and cultural experiences. One, born in 1887, Eugenio Del Sarto, Viareggio subversive and pro-anarchist since the days of the University, and soon strong idealist pure, firm, communist identity - really lived under the name of Eugenio Del Magro. After you set up the section of the Italian Communist Party of Viareggio, and has endeavored, with an air of fierce critic, to defend the rights of workers and citizens, Eugene is persecuted by fascism.
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He flees with his wife and children , in several countries in Europe. Family reunion - repairs , finally, in the Soviet Union , as a journalist . But here again, collided with instances delpotere political censorship because, true to his principles , continues to highlight the serious inconsistencies . Convicted of counter-revolutionary activity , he was interned in the gulag of Severus Vostocnyj , in the Crimea , where , in 1939 , dies. The other (figure completely imaginary ) is the Transcaucasian Fyodor Levskilyj , born in 1890 in Kirovabad , near the port city of Baku, on the Caspian Sea , " with its six-foot tall deployed in a dry and snappy ( ... ) he had a handsome face strong features , blue eyes and blond hair hay brought shorts with clearcutting . " Through early , daring adventures and unfortunate , Fyodor come to destroy, literally , that little bit of life that fate , from early childhood ominous , has reserved . He joined - without conviction , driven by the treacherous friend Dimitri Senkjevili - " in the ranks of the growing number of revolutionaries Lenin and Trotsky ." Over time, however , he realizes that they are in fact criminals " armed gangs " , capable of performing " rapes , looting ," arbitrary expropriations and all kinds of atrocities . He undertook , therefore, a long , perilous journey on foot, during a short leave in an attempt to reunite the family. But the license terminates , and Fyodor - while it is still in search of his relatives - suffered arrests , as a deserter. The chapters of this book take turns in telling the vicissitudes of the two protagonists . And the reader follows them , identifying the political and emotional hardships of the first, military and marital adversity in the second. Almost divided , the reader , to grant his sympathies , even his empathy , one or the other - wondering what can be shared by Eugene and Fyodor , if and when they will be able to compare, face to face , their souls , loves, losses. And then , at the end of the narrative, "for the first time in their separate existence , the heretic (...) Eugenio Del Sarto " and the nostalgic , resigned Fyodor Levskilyj - overwhelmed by an equal "curse" - spend together " the under the same night sky above the gulag of Severus Vostocnyj ":" both debtors of fate, robbed in his youth by demons not too different from each other . " Robbed , in the end , life and feelings of loved ones, just to have believed that freedom would flow as a direct consequence , the revolutionaries acted upon , and that the revolution could ensure a decent existence for all men. A historical novel , On the crest of utopia , which is enriched , page after page of elegant period frescoes - in the precise detailed description of the socio-economic fabric Italian and Russian. A novel that explores both aspects of the heart, is purely psychological traits of Eugene and Fyodor , always with a calm tone , and yet decided - quietly serene . There are, then , spacious, cinematic , "visions" nature , intended to highlight the strong contrasts that characterize the Tuscan landscape and the Caucasus. There is also more than a hint - spontaneous and environmentally - to the culinary traditions of Tuscany. So the author expresses himself on the subject of boiled beets , congealed in " pallette pressed ": " a product which, consumed in salads or sautéed with garlic clove , perhaps accompanied by pork sausages , was a very rich dish for those time. " Belluomini is faithful to the facts , which widely documented , but it is also abilenel " reinvent " in a narrative . Is punctual and honest, for example, when contextualizes the beginnings of fascism and its dictatorship, the revolution bolscevicae the ferocious outcomes of the Stalinist regime . Belluomini has in mind, above all, to deliver a sincere and lasting tribute "A Eugenio Del Magro , his daughter Teresa / and all those Italian / who had chased / the utopian dream of a better world, / whose traces are lost / horror of the Stalinist gulag / at the end of the thirties of last century. / / ". He plans to stay on the events of the past , not to erase that thin ridge that can recreate wounded from ideal , however, the hope, the collapse of any authentically and humanly valid utopia can induce to come to terms with history , the disappointments can trarresemi of wisdom: what happened , then, remains with the oppression , injustice and evil actions of absolute powers . But utopias , at least those not perish in the maze of false political doctrines. And how in the name of utopias are dead, they died in vain . Although, unfortunately , the ruins of existential ' " slender " , read, Eugenio Stubborn and strong , naive, depressed Fyodor stretch , like ghosts on the rubble individual and collective ingratitude of those years - and today, for many men equally difficult , " because the mystification of communications has always belonged to the established power , and especially to those who aspire to conquer the power ."
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