Andrea Bajani wins the witch: “males must also contest patriarchy”

Through a smooth language, purified by emotions and strong tones, the voice of those who finally emerge from a very long, exhausting suffering, and an analysis merciless of themselves, Bajani outlines the figure of a woman who “was not considered sufficient”. Similarly, A woman who started living as behind an soundproofed glass. However, convinced that she is so insignificant that it also became everything that surrounded her, including children. However, That in order not to live in fear she walled in indifference.

The penetrating analysis of the first part of the book. especially effective in the image of the invisible mother, flattens itself a little on the second, less resolved and less convincing. For example. in the interpretation of the scene, in itself very powerful, of when the mother – in order not to contrast the father who wanted to start andrea bajani wins witch: “males on vacation and who had now closed the general tap of the water – washes his teeth by immersing the toothbrush on the toilet. If the purpose had been only to contrast your father, why not simply give up to wash your teeth? The impression is that this scene hides more – self -harm. masochism – other effects that patriarchate can generate on its victims, and that it would be interesting to deepen. However, the author only mentions a “familiarity with abjection”. Just as the idea that the Father. through violence, demands love and seems to us to afford an overall vision of the mechanisms on which patriarchy is based, is not very convincing.

The figure of the father. who we hope will be at the center of one of the author’s next novels, stands out in the book that was ranked second: Lost this sea is (Rizzoli, 133 votes), andrea bajani wins witch: “males by Elisabetta Rasy. A father from whom he had moved away. as he had moved away from his

Father -land, Naples, and who is told in parallel to a putative father, a friendly father, the writer Raffaele La Capria. Nadia Terranova. for the second finalist time to the witch, arrived third with What I know of you (Guanda, 117 votes), also in this case a family portrait, that of the great -grandmother interned in the asylum for 11 days in 1928. Fourth classified Paolo Nori. with I close the door and scream (Mondadori, 103 votes), in which Raffaello Baldini’s poems become a story and – not far away – in fifth place, the debutant Michele Ruol, with Inventory of what remains after the forest burns (Terrarossa, 99 votes), I tell, through family objects, of the two children that a couple has lost.

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