3 best books by Paolo Cognetti

The writer Paul Cognetti He is one of those authors determined to slip into his fiction literature a point of transcendence, almost philosophical in nature, with a taste for history with humanistic implications.

And yet it is not about writing stories with a moral or disguising the plot of complex ramifications. Cognetti only seems to seek a kind of impressionism, an existential canvas around characters presented in the nakedness of their emotions, almost always with a positivist notion within the undeniable realistic touch that ends up sliding the melancholic feeling of the passage of time.

Protagonists who leave to reencounter what they were, confessions after what they lived when that, what they lived, already places these characters in a half of life that Dante already spoke about in The Divine Comedy.

Of course, whatever it is to rethink juicy introspective dilemmas nowadays always brings that mimetic scenery, that natural knowledge of so much that the protagonist may be going through. And if the proposed actions also provide that interest in personal adventure, even better.

Top 3 recommended books by Paolo Cognetti

The eight mountains

Friendship without trivia, without subterfuge. Few of us can count friends on the fingers of one hand, in the deepest concept of friendship, in its meaning free of all interest and strengthened by dealing. In short, the affection beyond any other bond from which some kind of reciprocity emerges.

What is narrated to us in this book between Pietro and Bruno brings us back to the essence of who we were, to that friendship that we sometimes struck up, to those ties that we tie even with blood. Growing up does not always have to mean leaving paradises. As long as you are able to maintain that or those friends with whom you locked that unbreakable affection, you can grow up reconciled with your childhood that saw you leave. An emotional and transcendental reading, a not deep but light understanding of the magic of destiny that comes and goes, that claims you as part of another person and that only with it do you find meaning again as you wander through the world.

Pietro makes his way between cities, forges one of those fortunes won by hard work and tenacity. Bruno stays among the mountains of the Dolomites. But they both know that there, between high peaks, extensive meadows and deep gorges, time is waiting for them. A parenthesis to share with God or with anyone your appreciations about the past and the future, about parents, about love, about guilt and about dreams. A novel that makes its way around the world like an inextinguishable echo born between the eight mountains.

The eight mountains, by Cognetti

The Wild Boy

The allegory of abandonment as a philosophy. The blessing of the ascetic as the only placebo towards liberation. The boy who is now a man finds it difficult to accommodate himself in social conventions, in the formulas already raised, in ideological fittings.

The narrator sets out. The first steps are full of uncertainty. But as he goes, the guy discovers that the matter is trying to survive to feel that you are alive, that there is no worse effort than to allow yourself to be carried away by inertia. That what could wait for him when he grew old was that rancid remorse for which he was not going to return. Between mountains (of course), fleeting interactions with other humans, (as seen in essence by the author), animals and those forces of nature that reconnect him with the essence beyond other crude substitutes of connection of the XNUMXst century, the narrator end up enjoying the trip, the feeling of belonging, fundamentally, to the cycle of life.

The Wild Boy, by Cognetti

Without ever reaching the summit

The top of the world is no longer what it used to be. It no longer offers that mystical vision since hundreds of Sunday people were immortalized in a supermarket-like line to access the peak. So it does not hurt to recover that almost divine spirit of the mountain through stories like this one transmitted on this occasion in a wonderful travel notebook.

Luckily, Nepal offers many more scenarios connected with that point of immortality, of spirituality from the highest area in the world from which to make an offering or invoke the stars. Cognetti invites us to undertake a long journey in stages in the surroundings of this land retracted like no other towards the highest. Beyond Everest there are places that remain virtually untouched for unscrupulous photographers. And there we are moved by a Cognetti that makes the atavistic a fascinating connection with the telluric of that place that tries to touch the skies.

Cognetti in search of the end of the world to meet on the way. Life made adventure and presented in intense sips between the freezing cold and the strange ascetic shelter of naturalistic readings that offer answers only from the full experience of the dispossession of the material in the distance of civilization.

Without ever reaching the summit, by Cognetti
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