Piperno, I don’t like intellectuals who pontificate

(ANSA) – ROME, NOV 27 – It is a very positive thing for Alessandro Piperno, that intellectuals today do not have a true, authoritative voice. The 2012 Strega Prize writer does not “like intellectuals, vati who pontificate on things that do not concern their sphere. When it happens, they tend to always do it wrong, inappropriately, in a vain, narcissistic way.

Just think of the things said about Covid “he tells ANSA Piperno who designed the schedule of ‘Domenica con’ ‘of November 28, the program curated by Giovanni Paolo Fontana and Enrico Salvatori, broadcast from 14 to 24 on Rai Storia ( channel 54). “I think it would be better for a writer to take care of his own stuff. If you asked me for an opinion on Covid, I would not know what to tell you if not the things of common sense, that I have vaccinated myself, that I will do the third dose. I don’t think he has any public interest. I have no regrets about periods in which intellectuals had a greater specific weight than we have today “explains the writer. In his ‘Domenica con’ which he hopes will be fun, we will see one of the most famous episodes of Match made by Alberto Arbasino who pitted Moravia and Sanguineti armed against each other. “I find that formula very funny, a good piece of television, but I don’t feel any nostalgia for that world” he explains. autobiography and entertainment mix, there are a bit of all his themes, his suggestions, and the episode could only open with Marcel Proust and the 1966 documentary by Attilio Bertolucci ‘In search of Marcel Proust’.

“Proust is the official protagonist but what interests me most is the unofficial protagonist: Attilio Bertolucci the poet, not that the father of the filmmaker Bernardo. For Proust he had a real obsession. The short but beautiful documentary has some real gems like the interviews with Paul Morand and Celeste Alabaret, the maid who followed Marcel, who died a few years later “says the writer and Frenchist, a great fan and reader of Proust. (HANDLE).

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