Yesterday we asked ourselves because the writers never understand anything about politics, here in Italy. And the answer came from America. Notoriously a lot of ahead of us.
It happened that, leafing through the newspapers, we came across a splendid interview with the writer Richard Ford, an anti-trumpian but with strong disappointments for biden, who without fanaticism says that “American writers don’t think their books have any influence on the internal debate. We prefer to entrust the task of facing politics to specialists ». That, to think about it, in a time when the idiots are also specialized, it is the maximum of political commitment.
Of course, they have Richard Ford and we Gianrico Carofiglio. The first sang the epic of the American middle class in Pulitzer novels, the second speaks with contempt in La7 of the “deep American province”, he who is from Bari. Then there is Roberto Saviano, who on “X” pays 35 Euro per month of blue check to Elon Musk to tell him that he is a Nazi. And finally the chat of intellectuals of the Democratic Party which will now try to overthrow Trump with WhatsApp.
The trouble is that in Italy the writers, convinced that they have some influences on the internal debate, speak constantly, speak only with each other and speaking are always reasoned.
But in reality politics do not understand anything. Words and thoughts based on things that have never happened or that have yet to happen. That is, exactly, coincidentally, what should make a great novel. That they don’t know how to write.