"In the world in which this worker
lives, the poor, to survive, have to steal from each other."
André Bazin, Neorealism.
Any resemblance to the reality in which two-thirds of the
population of our planet live could be purely coincidental. . . Or causality?
Did we ask the International Monetary Fund?
Bicycle Thieves is a novel written by Luigi Bartolini.
Its original title is Ladri di biciclette. The book that I enjoy this week
belongs to the Inter-American Collection of Great Contemporary Novels printed
by Editorial Hemisphere in Buenos Aires in 1950 and has the passionate
translation of José Blaya Lozano.
In addition, bicycle thieves was taken to the movies by
the masterful Vittorio de Sicca and has an overwhelming force from the moment
it was released as one of the great international successes of Italian cinema
of the twentieth century.
I have read this work with great affection. The problem
is that young people do not know what I'm talking about. You see, we are
failing in the transmission of cultural goods and reggaetón on the radio and
the stupidities on television do not help at all.
Who was Luigi Bartolini? Oh, young people, your ignorance
is our fault. Forgive your significant adults. Many of them do not know what
the thing is about.
Luigi Bartolini was an Italian painter and poet. Luigi
Bartolini was born in Cupramontana in 1892 and died in Rome in 1963. Bartolini
studied the engravings of Goya, Rembrandt, Signorini and Fatteri. Later,
Bartolini wrote seventy books and turned etching into a true poetic
communication channel.
Ladri de biciclette is his novel. Vittorio de Sicca, from
here the Great Vittorio, made a film of this novel that tells how a worker is
robbed and how, accompanied by his little son, he starts looking for the thief
to recover his bicycle.
I can not say more about the film and the book except
that they are different. Boys and Girls are going to have to be brave and watch
the movie and read the book to understand it.
They say that Bicycle Thieves is considered the
masterpiece of modern realism. That's partly because he was talking in the
middle of the 20th century about what our newscasters are currently talking
about . . . A more reason to see the reality that afflicts us.
Lía Olga Herrera Soto
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