Serena Dandini (photo by Gianmarco Chieregato).
No.It is never easy to come to terms with one’s past and especially with one’s family of origin.
Most of literature, cinema and any other known form of storytelling is inspired by our conflictual relationship with those who preceded us and brought us into the world.
The material is always alive and never goes out of fashion. “All happy families are alike, every unhappy family is unhappy in his own way” wrote Tolstoy in Anna Karenina which, in addition to being the most famous incipit in the history of literature, is also a great truth.
Everyone knows the effort they made to assert their individuality and pursue their dreamsthe path to detach from a path already marked for us by our parents is bumpy and full of pitfalls and it is not always possible to get out of it intact.
Wounds and bruises will be part of our existential baggage, and will forever remain as invisible tattoos under the skin. This I thought while reading Apneathe autobiography of Lucrezia Lante della Rovere just released for Piemme.
“Apnea” by Lucrezia Lante della Rovere (Piemme).
A long confession that almost resembles a psychoanalysis session in which the author comes to terms with an important family and a mother who is an understatement to call bulky.
Lucrezia is a talented actress, beautiful but above all nice because she has a subtle self-irony that helps us readers to identify with her stories even if they are light years away from our experiences.
All of us, in some moments of our existence, have lived in apnea, out of breath, trying to remain invisible and hidden, but the important thing is to learn every time to re-emerge. and take a breath and above all be able to forgive those who cornered you. Although in this case she is called Marina Ripa di Meana.
And it is precisely the total sincerity with which he reveals fragility and insecurities that makes his story interesting and humanmaking them avoid the slope of morbid gossip: a risk that the fame of many of the protagonists in question could fatally attract.
It is no coincidence that the most successful and lasting love story is the one that united her to Arturo, a furry Italian hound who, since he entered her life, has given her the permanent center of gravity she was looking for so much.
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