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• Title: Visions of war: Universality, Dignity, And the Emptiness of Symbols in Paola Masino (Critical Essay)
• Author : Italica
• Release Date : January 22, 2010
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 94 KB

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In one of her personal notebooks written during the 1960's Paola Masino declares, not without pride: "E ora so anche perche ne sono uscita [dalla piccola schiera dei privilegiati]: perche occorre crederci davvero, a quell'importanza e a quel privilegio: non vedere l'ingiustizia, la fallacita, la meschinita ... veder chiaro e sempre stato il mio difetto; e la mia colpa, dire quel che vedevo" (Io, Massimo e gli altri 114). (1) A consistent trait of Masino's is indeed the straightforwardness and even the insolence with which she confronts her readers, wringing a reaction out of them, be it horror, shock, or deep compassion. Such straightforwardness and determination to condemn injustice and falseness are not limited to Masino's extensive journalistic activity. On the contrary, they extend to much of her literary production, particularly to those writings in which she addresses, directly or indirectly, the brutality and absurdity of war, as for example many of the short stories contained in the collection Colloquio di notte ("Nighttime Conversation"), written for the most part between 1943 and 1948; the novel, Nascita e morte della massaia ("Birth and Death of the Housewife," 1945); several poems that appeared in Poesie (1947); and Io, Massimo e gli altri: Autobiografia di una figlia del secolo ("Massimo, Myself, and the Others: The Autobiography of a Daughter of the Century"), a series of letters and personal writings collected by Maria Vittoria Vittori and published posthumously in 1995. It is in the vivid, at times crude representation of war and its impact on human life that Masino's inspiration is most authentic and passionate. Born in 1908 in Pisa, Paola Masino moved to Rome with her family at an early age. Her adolescent years were spent reading voraciously: the Bible (from which she absorbed the notion of guilt), but also the sacred texts of other religions; Shakespeare; French novelists from the 19th century; Dostoyevsky and many others. By age sixteen she had already written a play, Le tre Marie ("The Three Marias," never published), and boldly asked none other than Luigi Pirandello to stage it, a daring gesture that marked the beginning of a long-lasting friendship between the two. Three years later, in 1927, Masino met the writer Massimo Bontempelli, and despite harsh resistance from her family (Bontempelli was separated and thirty years her senior), she became his lifelong companion. Her value as a writer has too often been overshadowed by all-too-easy comparisons to her more famous partner, to the point that Masino's style and influences tend to be judged in terms of how much or how little they resemble Bontempelli's and the literary trend he promoted, that is, magical realism. (2) It is commonly agreed that her writing is closer to Surrealism than to magical realism, as she is more drawn toward the unconscious and the realm of dreams than toward the acknowledgment of a magical element hidden in everyday things. (3) And yet, though not fully embracing magical realism, she certainly absorbed its main concept. Indeed, when asked (in 1982) what the literary journal 900 (where Bontempelli had first theorized magical realism, and to which she herself had contributed) had meant for her, she answered:

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