A reality that seems remote - but it is not -
resignation, hope, small daily struggles: to live the homeless protagonists of this "Man of the pigeons," delicate and profound novel by Salvatore Scalisi .
The author focuses on the complex lives of the marginalized. And it does from another important issue, the difficulty for a writer to break into the publishing world.
But let's step by step: this is the story of Stephen Aloisi, who live for writing. A deep depression, exacerbated also from continued refusal of his writings on the part of publishers to whom it applies, urges him to leave everything he had built - family, home, work - and to leave only for "a short period of time." In the new reality, one made of alms, common table, violence, but such generosity, Stephen feels forced. At the same time, however, fails to make "the leap" back home. Helping the protagonist, dispensing tips and tricks, he's there, Charles, the man of pigeons. former professor of philosophy, try to encourage in every way and Stefano to get him to "make peace" con la scrittura. Stefano, confortato dalla presenza dell’amico, si cimenterà nella redazione di un racconto il cui tema sono proprio gli stessi clochard e, per questo, rimanderà a più riprese il ricongiungimento con i familiari e la vecchia vita. Ma chi vive sulla strada sa qual è il rischio per uno come Stefano: l’incatenamento a quella realtà tanto triste e crudele, quanto libera e piena.
Romanzo certamente non sempre semplice e lineare, questo, che fornisce, però, spunti di riflessione notevoli. L’Autore narra con dolcezza una storia che altrimenti sarebbe stata dura e aspra. Si scivola con delicatezza in questo racconto ovattato and there is just drifting along, page after page, in a different reality from what we think we know.
Angela Liuzzi
Salvatore Scalisi, Man pigeons , Perspective Publishing, 152 pp, € 12.00
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