Narrare. Tentativi di inventario

Why writing? What impulse has driven man for centuries to narrate stories? This is the question from which Franco Rella\’s reflection starts, resorting to all the readings accumulated over the course of his life and asking the authors who have most moved him. From Dante to Cavalcanti, from Shakespeare to Benjamin, and then Goethe, Kafka, Bataille, Roth, the Greek and Latin classics; there is no narrator who has not asked himself the question and who has not tried to explain – and explain to himself – the reality that surrounds us. The need to narrate arises precisely from that reality, and the writer can manipulate it, make a fictional character play the part of the protagonist, only to realize that the absolute protagonist of the narration is the word itself, the only defense that man has against evil, the only weapon capable of organizing the image of the world and of reality, as in an ideal inventory that collects all the past experiences.