intevista This is designed to Sulromanzo.it Delving into the pages of the new Bruno Arpaia's novel is like climbing up on a rock overlooking the sea, driven by gusts to nowhere Wind unfriendly and abrupt. It is just in time to get accustomed to literary narrative that, suddenly, there he meets formulas, numbers, definitions. The physics of water that you soak the words speaking part under the skin of the player. The abrupt changes of scene, as well as the irregular movement on the timeline, the story accelerates. Social roles inverted with an attentive father and present in the life of a mother and son swallowed up by the underground at CERN. Emilia's work opens a hole in the marriage relationship, resulting in Peter the torment of loneliness. The metaphors that distributes Arpaia wise alternation along the narrative involves the reader into the heart of the story: the physics. About not accustomed to science, neutrinos, quarks, strings and gravity could be afraid of getting lost in the street, they do not understand, get bored. Not so. Scientific explanations are left to the simple and direct words of Emily and his collaborators, aims to explain their mysterious profession to a English journalist. Read these pages is like watching a tutorial, populated by signs on the blackboard, slide on the screen, hands raised to question. The answers come without presumption, there are few certainties and many doubts. And then the plot, an escape - for no apparent reason - a succession of provincial roads, rural, small towns, phone turned off and watchful eyes. Peter and his son race against time, against a mystery that can not resolve, since he can rely only on instinct. Emilia suddenly turns into a brave soldier, without much conviction. It relies on a fate that may already be written, because sometimes, past, present and future overlap.
Vacuum, with its energy, is at the heart of this novel, even in a vacuum because there is something to be discovered. As in life, even in science there is the flip of a second. When pages are tinged with smoke, terrorism, fundamentalist and international intrigue, the beating of an intuition change the lives of the protagonists.
"Vacuum energy" (published by Bloomsbury Publishing) is one of those texts that children should study in school to learn that life, science, literature, feelings, nothing more that are different faces of the same solid .
Physics is often considered a niche topic, for experienced experts. Reading your novel, however, there encounters a world full of charm and transparency. It almost seems that scientific curiosity is inherent in all of us in latent form. What leads to explosion of this feeling?
Perhaps the fact that contemporary physics, beyond its technicalities, for experts, returned to ask the fundamental questions, those that are already placed and the Presocratics that beset us today, what we are, where we come from, what really matter, space, time? Moreover, the physical is only a way as any to explore the boundaries of ourselves and our world, to experience adventure and a passion for knowledge. During the twentieth century, in fact, relativity and quantum mechanics have revolutionized our world and even the way we think the science itself. Today science, just like art, uses a lot of imagination, dealing with both of truth and beauty, is more uncertain, indeterminate more mysterious. In short, as John Banville wrote, "at a certain level, essential, art and science are so close that it is difficult to distinguish."
greater importance in the narrative from the events and not their chronological order. What does it mean for you, time?
For me it obsession, the real spring that pushes me to write, thus representing fil rouge of all my novels. I think anyone who tell stories dealing with a self-evident: that there is a time and that our life is lived as long. Telling stories, in short, it means dealing with the time, that time in our life comes to an end. Therefore, the physical theories, Einstein on, bring into question the "absolute time" and the objective was talking about Newton, or even put in doubt the very existence of time should be part of the baggage of any storyteller. In this book I have tried, with the weapons of the narrative, to bring the reader the possibility of a different time from our common perception of a time, so to speak, more fundamental, a "proper time" as Einstein called it . Everyone can read the second novel by mounting their own special time, perhaps discovering that the unbroken line that goes from past to future through the present (which is the common way of perceiving time for us westerners) could be only one ' illusion.
are doubtful, physicists. and doubt that comes the desire to experience?
course. Only fundamentalists, religious or not, believe they already have all the answers: more questions they chip away at the closed system, all-encompassing, and consequently their power. For this reason they are afraid and try to impose their dogma at all costs. How do I tell one of my characters, "I think it is telling, like science, to complicated questions in the world, leading to more complicated questions and never answers a final and certain. "
Your style is an element of originality in the contemporary literary scene. Mix metaphors with scientific terminology and refined elegance and speed. Do you feel more attracted by the narrative or knowledge?
I do not think storytelling and knowledge are two antithetical concepts. Indeed. The narrative is perhaps the oldest instrument of knowledge of humanity can processing and transmitting passions, emotions, reason, and above all experience, which, as Walter Benjamin said already in the thirties of the twentieth century, it is precisely what modern man has been deprived. The story, in short, is a great form of knowledge, serves to ensure that the experience should not be entirely lost. It is basically a way to oppose the death. If we were immortal, maybe not telling stories. Meanwhile, order in the chaos of a life story, we learn to know her better and to discover ourselves and reality.
Barbara Greggio
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