2023-06-17 17:36:11
The funeral of Napoleon, a great divisive character, on stage – al Politeama theater in Naples for the ‘Campania Festival’ – on the same day in which the funeral of Silvio Berlusconialso a great divisive character… “This parallel crossed my mind on stage – he confesses Pillow linenprotagonist of ‘Napoleon the death of God’to time.news – It was impossible to avoid this reference: not only politics but also Italian life itself loses a protagonist, producer of undoubtedly successful cultural and political models, even if I didn’t share anything of that ideological world”.
Guanciale explains: “My reflection is directed above all to the importance of recognizing and respecting the greatness of a man who left a profound mark on people, both in those who idolized and voted for him, and in those who despised and opposed him. In this sense, today we are all orphans of Berlusconi…”. As for the work ‘The Death of God’ written by David Sacco and taken in part from a text by victor hugo“I didn’t know him, it was a gift from the author and a wonderful discovery for me. The diary of victor hugo speaks to us in a very lucid way of the cultural and human consequences of the greatness and power of famous people and of power over ordinary people, even over those who, due to generational factors, have never directly known and experienced them, leaving a deep mark on the collective unconscious” .
The figure of NapoleonGuanciale recalls, “I was very passionate about it at school, I saw him as a myth, like Julius Caesar o Charlemagne. I grew up with the idea of history as a construction by great personalities, which I then had to demystify instead: I understood that history doesn’t work like this and I don’t even like it told like this; I embraced other less limiting visions. The fact remains that figures such as Napoleon should be counted among the fathers of the contemporary world. In a short space of time, Napoleon brought about enormous changes, not just geopolitical.”
But what attracted David Sacco compared to the Time.news of Napoleon’s funeral told by Victor Hugo? “The theme of the death of fathers, of the fall of the ‘titans’, of the loss of the paternal concept – the author replies to time.news – We started from this strange and particular article, with an almost documentary vision of Napoleon’s funeral, a sort reportage on the arrival at the final destination of the burial of a great father, loved and hated by his contemporaries”.
In this sense, “the ‘pater familias’ can be confused and superimposed on the myth of the ‘father of the country’ and even on that of the ‘our father who is in heaven’, of God – explains Davide Sacco – It is the story, in general, of man’s fragility.In my text, the lesson of
victor hugo: I tried to ask myself the same questions as he did, to see if I could give the same answers as he did. You are always prepared but never ready to answer questions”. As for the choice of Pillow linen as the protagonist, “he is not an actor, he is a ‘creator’ because in reality he too writes the text, with his pauses and his gestures”.
(Of Enzo Bonaiuto)
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