Susanna Tamaro infuriates Crusca: “It’s unfair to assault Verga”

“When she indicates replacing the classics with the modern-day, Susanna Tamaro have to call, in preference to herself, the writers of the incredible 20th-century fashion, to whom it's miles right to draw extra interest. But no longer to the detriment of the greats of our past, who are the protagonists of the planetary gallery of literati e it might be excellent if the writers themselves examine extra today, to get their very own fashion tooThis is how the Accademia della Crusca beats the writer Susanna Tamaro, creator of the best dealer “Va’ dove ti porta il cuore”, according to which, as she these days declared, cutting-edge writers should be examine at faculty and depart the boring classics on my own starting with Giovanni Verga.

The reprimand in opposition to Tamaro, whose phrases have aroused “bewilderment amongst instructors and pupils”, reports Adnkronos, is signed by means of Vittorio Coletti, professor emeritus of the history of the Italian language at the University of Genoa and academician of the Crusca, who with Francesco Sabatini he directed the “Sabatini Coletti. Dictionary of the Italian Language”.

According to the linguist Coletti, inside the article entitled ‘Literature at faculty, these days’, published on the website of the Accademia della Crusca, Susanna Tamaro’s precise reference to Verga became “particularly unfair and wrong – she ought to had been bored studying the ‘Malavoglia’, but I suppose it’s his problem, due to the fact it's far, with the aid of generic popularity, a unique this is many of the first-rate masterpieces of nineteenth-century European narrative: an remarkable linguistic invention, among the poetic and the sensible, epic and tragic portrait of a humble and honest Italy, which tried to establish itself with the toil of labor and determined within the State  and deaf energy.The relevance of Verga’s masterpiece stays very strong, even though the terrible not exchange in lupins and emigrated overseas”.

According to Professor Coletti, “there may be a effective pedagogical purpose for making Susanna Tamaro’s statements questionable: the idea of ​​faculty and literature as a double or reflect of the prevailing. The function of the college, however, is not to mirror or to erase the variations among young humans and their international, but to assist them apprehend them, to degree them with one of a kind languages, richer or extra precise than their personal, consisting of those of literature”.

“Literature, for its element, allows the reader to understand his personal time now not most effective when it's far chronologically modern-day with it, however also and notably when it offers him with effective and lengthy-lasting approach, examined via decades or centuries of interest and consensus, to recognize it alone – writes Coletti – Literature and school aren't locations in which one must reflect on the encompassing fact, already too bad of its own to wish for duplicates, but those wherein one reflects on it and attempts to recognize it, to consciously relate to and, on every occasion viable, to enhance it”.

To Tamaro who argued that younger people want contemporaneity, of contemporary activities, to locate their sensitivities and problems and of the prevailing also in literature, the instructional della Crusca replies that “there may be a just want on this request, but also a gross errors, refuted for centuries, which consists in believing that the artistic topicality is represented simplest by means of cutting-edge artwork and now not information that the rate of modernity is proportional to the value of the work, to its resistance to time, so much so It is proper that nowadays Greek tragedies (albeit in every other language and of much greater antiquity) are commonly used and studied by using historians and jurists to address strictly present day political and juridical problems, and the recent anniversaries of Dante and Manzoni have proven the power in their coaching for understanding and complaint of the Italian man or woman and for a rethinking of the concrete human measurement at the time of its feared evaporation into the digital universe”.