Being surpassed in the rankings by Alessandro Sallusti’s book was already something intolerable. From the book by Giorgia Meloni, then … “Now do those on the right also read?” Asked Michela Murgia to her press office. More. They write.
Michela Murgia has been writing since she was a young girl, in Cabras, in the Campidano di Oristano region, left bank of the wonderful Cabras pond, or Mari Pontis: watery land of ducks (many ducks), humidity (high), bottarga (excellent), nuraghi (about 75) and pink flamingos. Half male and half pink, like everything in the vision of a woman who before being a female is a feminist and before being a writer is a militant. “All men are male chauvinists.” «Well, in short, let’s talk about it …». “Be quiet!”.
The Murgia, which hates the definite article before nouns and the masculine ending at the end of any word, is neither Rosa Luxemburg nor Simone de Beauvoir. But a notable intellectual of struggle, of festivals, of the stage and of talk shows. «How to reconcile the fight against patriarchy with the love for Elettra Lamborghini’s new song about a real man? We will talk about it tonight with Concita De Gregorio, Mariolina Sattanino and Michela Murgia … ». Writers don’t save your life, but they turn your night around sometimes.
Excellent novelist (Accabadora conquered critics, won the Dessì Prize, the SuperMondello and the Campiello Prize: it is still a beloved and best-selling book), so-so theologian (her negligible Ave Mary did not convince L’Osservatore Romano: “made up of trivial ideas , reveals a decidedly insufficient preparation on the history of the Church, and in particular on that of women in the Church “), a botched political scientist (let’s say that she has a bit confused ideas about Hamas and the army generals) and superb host of many television broadcasts ( in both meanings of the adjective “superb”), Michela Murgia – long recognized in a non-binary gender identity: neither right nor left, thus dividing the antipathy of both sides – has immense merit. To always be on the right side. Her. Which, never questioning itself, can be very consoling.
Female alter ego, as well as feminist, by Massimo Giannini, and twin sister of Tomaso Montanari (to whom he shares the enviable ability to intervene on any topic, from pandemic to fascism) Michela Murgia excels in everything (absit iniuria, which is Latin , not Sardinian): in novels, in journalism, in the conduct of TV broadcasts, in attendance at festivals if there is no Murgia on the program, the shopping bags do not even print in his being a blogger, playwright, literary critic and columnist. And above all partisan. Wonderful example of how if you have no ideas on how to broaden the faculty of speech, you always find excellent ones to limit that of others. “Be quiet! I have the murgiometer to measure how the world is going ».
The point is that the public thought of the Murgia always proceeds by key words: fascism, male chauvinism, sexism, racism and Fregula (excellent cooked with clams). And if it has “Sàlv1n1-Pu77oNë” as the wifi password, it is only accidental.
Michela Murgia, the most prolific of the tricoteuses of the Place de la République, currently of La Stampa, thinks that the heterosexual white male is guilty in and of itself, regardless. “From what?”, “From everything.” He thinks that Italian is a discriminatory language, and so cuts the endings. He thinks that the feminine does not exist, it is only a social construct, and makes feminism, in itself not a bad idea, an ideology. Do you think that anyone who does not move on the Italian Left axis, the Communist Refoundation, L’Altra Europa, La7, Feltrinelli, Repubblica, RaiTre, the Turin Book Fair, is fascist ips * fact *, and thus makes the majority of fascism.
In short, the mainstream explained well. “We decide what is right, and democratically impose it on others.” Fortunately, the Sardinians are not stubborn.
Priestess of that particular form of Western Sharia law which is the politically correct Shewa, asterisk and #RestiamoUmani -, now more political influencer than narrator, inflexible champion of ethics over aesthetics (“Dear Walter Siti literature – is it commitment, or is it not ! “), The Sardinian writer – floral skirts, unfulfilled contracts and calm reflections on the Arab-Israeli conflict – is a tireless agit-prop of international days against homophobia, misogynist, biphobia, lesbophobia, transphobia, rail phobia, trenifobia, Trenitaliafobia, Italophobia and railway passers-by. Caghinéri.
But then here’s the real problem “Why weren’t there #women in the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan?”
Faithful to the motto “Know the enemy and the victory will be yours”, Michela Murgia, studying the opponent thoroughly, preparing herself as if it were always the challenge of life, living every public confrontation like an Istrumpa match, usually wins. But doing devastating damage. The refined Socratic debate on Franco Battiato’s texts unleashed a biblical shitstorm on her, which in Sardinian is called Ti cagu a facci. By denying the feminine, she allowed Paola Ferrari to reply that “Feminism is the past”. By shouting at fascism every day, he makes anti-fascists into exalted ones. And by pointing to the privileges of a supposed white, straight and masculine elite, he makes democracy something that is no longer for everyone but for the minorities who impose their vision of it.
Then, after the ideology, there is the business. Activism, provocation and dinai. If it were not Sardinian, no logo, without make-up, Catholic and so left, the Murgia would be Chiara Ferragni. Everything he touches becomes gold, abracadabra, accabadora: novels, essays, pamphlets, audio books, plays, blogs, conferences, podcasts … Murgia, we want to be like you. “Give me some Lei!”
Alien from the clichés that stubborn, touchy and vengeful Sardinians want, Michela Murgia actually has a rare sense of balance even in moments of the worst political clashes. Rosario, Catholic Action and Quattro Mori, remained in the news when he politely greeted Matteo Salvini with the unforgettable “Ti auguru de ci campai a 100 annusu: 99 annusu palasa on the ground and an annu morendi”. In English it is hate speech. In Italian, murgismo.
After all, it remains only to understand how a fiercely independent woman and even more independentist (on Sardinia she is more sovereign than Salvini on Padania), who attended the industrial technical institute and began working in a call center, so nobly identifying and faithful to his own principles of class struggle, he lends himself to working for industrial groups (Gedi, which belongs to the Agnelli-Elkann family) and publishing groups (Berlusconi’s Einaudi-Mondadori) that are so far from his ideal and moral principles . Or how it can be a practitioner of a religion, such as Catholicism, essentially mansplaining. Sardinia is an island sandwiched between the rainbow and the Vatican.
And for everything else, since the irony does not take root very much on the island, Sbattirindi.