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Is it sufficient to plant bushes someplace to know life as one thing easy? Marco Martella is aware of that the countryside has by no means been a nice place, opposite to what “City” assume. To the writer of A small world, an ideal world, Walks and curiosity flourish him in his unclassifiable essay style that mixes analysis and creativeness.

Samuel Beckett and Violet Trefusis, Pasolini and his French neighbor Suzanne, Anemones and Mirobolan plugs … their new e book are distributed The Fruits of Mirobolan (EDITORIAL ELBA). “Some people, like some species, seem to grow as if the truth could only bloom among lies,” he says.

A fact might be Beckett’s monotonous life in Ussy (France), in the home that may draw a faculty with the peerlessly lower grass and an apple tree, writing Texts for nothing And consuming low cost white wine after the afternoon. Martella says {that a} scholar who will get there asks Beckett if she was Beckett and she or he solutions “I’m sorry, I’m just the gardener.” When he took the cellphone, Elias Cannetti pretended to be his secretary. What would I be if it might be?

Cover of the book Los Frutos del Mirobolan.

In his new e book, Martella arrives on the “Cura” gardens, hobbies for wealthy as a result of, his neighbor Suzanne tells him, “the pleasure of sowing successfully is nothing more than a substitute for the true pleasures of life.” A life that disappears with out having left fruit is just not an actual life, the girl thinks. But what’s the fruit? Martella wonders. How had Suzanne managed to reinforce the fantastic thing about these crops when the sap now not circulated in her veins?

Just as there are paths that don’t get wherever, there are seeds that anticipate to flourish and books that anticipate to be written. The unusual fruits of the comfort that Rilke alludes are, for Martella, probably the most stunning. That is why the anemones solely seem in soils the place the leaflet and useless wooden kind, little by little, when decomposing, a damp and deep earth.

The writer of Flowers (Elba) Write that homes, corresponding to forests, have their noises. That time is important to get used to them. And he talks about silence that additionally blooms like flowers. Thus, it evokes poor Baucis, became oak, already filmon, already reworked right into a linden, which serves Martella to speak in regards to the Roman delusion of males descending of bushes, “dejected by her nobility.”

“Those who love the gardens do not conform to life. They consider that it is good to explore death to tame it. They know that a garden is load and happiness at the same time.” In entrance of them, Martella defends the insignificant backyard. The imperfect of Montaigne during which the French essayist wished loss of life to shock him by planting cabbages. Is that? Plantar is a sacred act. An act of religion. Why hold planting? “To be honest, I have never known why I planted,” Martella himself explains. It is …, it appears to be, a peasant who has discovered to take life with persistence. And to just accept not figuring out what’s going to occur tomorrow.

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