De Italiaanse schrijver Andrea De Carlo werd geboren in Milaan op 11 december 1952. Zie ook alle tags voor Andrea De Carlo op dit blog.
Uit: Due di Due (Vertaald door Paula Geldenhuys)
“I observe the confused mass of heads and busts in motion, hoping to recognize the hair of a girl whom I saw a few days earlier, and instead I’m struck by the gaze of one who is trying to make his way with an expression of concentrated estrangement.
It is the gaze of an uninvited guest, of a stowaway: a gaze dissociating from his own lineaments, from his own way of turning his head to the right and to the left.
Then in the reconstructed recollection there is a void, wherein Guido Laremi with his extraneous gaze is reabsorbed into the background. I free my motor scooter from the chain and I crank it up, and these simple doings cost me fatigue and repetition, anger against the objects.
I’m on, at length, and I’m trying to cut my way through the people and the cars, and I hit somebody. I feel a knock on one side of the handlebars; I sway and lose my balance; I fly over the scooter dragged by my heavy greatcoat, by the canvas-bag filled with mandatory books.
Some round heads and long necks, some apple or pumpkin or pine-seed-like faces, some bunker-slit or bottle-end or wide-screen-like pair of spectacles turn around in the jumble of movements; they look away as soon as I’m back on my feet with no interesting damage.
A couple of meters from me Guido Laremi is pressing a hand on his flank, says «Damn». He is more or less my age, blue eyes, disheveled, fairish hair. He’s wearing an English raincoat, but it wears too short on him; he, too, keeps his collar raised. He is staring at me, and his gaze is now filled with irritation, other than extraneousness.
I tell him «I’m sorry»; I pull up my motor scooter. All about streaming-out students continue to knock and push and press one another, amidst grumbles and squeaks and laughs and guttural cries.”
Andrea De Carlo (Milaan, 11 december 1952)
Lees verder “Andrea De Carlo, Naguib Mahfouz, Paul Rigolle, Ludwig Laher, Janko Ferk”