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The Transatlantic and Moby Dick

Vincenzino Sifullo woke up in the way that he never wanted. The salty smell like seaweed and dead sea waves, caressed his nostrils and then became pervasive. He opened his eyes dall'assopimento that took him, between night and dawn, in the Carabinieri jeep patrol. It was, as usual, at the corner of Piazza House. And the boat was there, with high masts and sails, a little bent on one side. Dripping water and algae, and small fish, which ended up on the pavement. In the center of the Italian Parliament that he and colleagues had to supervise.

to Old to be hosted by the ship Pequod in Transatlatico, the Italian Parliament, is the legendary Captain Ahab (pictured top left, played by Gregory Peck) in the novel Moby Dick , to which today's edition paper Il Sole 24 ore de used in his gallery of characters from the past to revive the fortunes of this . The idea is thus presented by the editors of the newspaper:

"Lessons from history: the character who could help us start" will involve every day on the signature pages of the newspaper's most authoritative newspaper that tell a person of their choice, past or recent This, they believe that in complex situations has been able to find the way out.

In this case we have a biblical character Ahab used in the literature by Herman Melville. It is not only an appeal to the lessons of history, but an example of the use of storytelling to tell the story of this, not directly but in an indirect way, a reflection Italo Calvino knew well how do I explain in the American Lessons . Speaking of light wrote that her way of making literature was a bit 'as Perseus to kill Medusa does not look in the eyes because otherwise it would have been petrified. Then he looks at his reflection in the shield and only thus is able to bury it without getting killed. Except that the story of David Rondoni published on Il Sole 24 ore now we have a deliberate confusion of levels: Captain Ahab is housed within its own parliament that would change that. I will not reveal the ending, but a metaphor lends itself well to the story of an institutional reality otherwise far less compelling. And it is a metaphor that runs from the first years of affirmation of the largest party in the center of Italy, which has dominated the political scene for 50 years: the Christian Democrats called just "white whale". Today, that whale on the political scene has been blown away by Tangentopoli but too many people wanting to return. But there are also many Ahab chasing her for a desire for omnipotence. And many want to get on that ship: priests, mysterious characters, officers, etc.. And 'the realm of adventure.

I wanted to tell you this initiative de Il Sole 24 ore because as we have said is a fine example of storytelling, and because it seeks to tell a series of problems in an entertaining form of literature such as that of the narrative of biography or historical figures. The Problem Telling the subject of this blog, is largely, in fact, a 'transaction of this type. I'll be back with the next post on the subject.