Review: "The key to Brebo" Bassoli Giorgio and Giuseppe Danilo Vallarino, The key of Brebo , Genova, Libropiù Publishing, 2008
the wake of a number of publications dedicated to the nostalgic memory of our country, traditions and folklore materials, the authors We open the doors to a hinterland of Genoa that seems to be unrelated to the passage of time as we know in town. The Brebo is a small valley behind the mountains, a parallel reality, esostorica no contact with the modern world, of which the authors show us the delicate and moving images: a world of details, stones and leaves, streets , windows, perfumes rural and sun.
A book of poetry and also made of words, sometimes with emotion and sometimes pain silent for a world that is not there, that becomes every day more subtle. Excites us and makes us smile with the colors of the mountains and the familiar faces of the elderly, but also confronts us with a problem and with it a responsibility. The world of Brebo, which opens only with the special magic key, that is with a new mindset and a renewed interest in rediscovering it, is a fragile world, poised between reality and oblivion, which can not survive only through memories, but that needs a new lifeblood of people who see it and who wants to revive it. And perhaps today there is a chance that this happens, that those who flee from the cities in search of a roaring little 'peace collect the crumbs one by one until the door of Brebo and who can find, among many, the key to enter.
A book to be savored, to browse quietly, to observe. A great work of memory and art of poetry.
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