Winston Mirror
Now, perched on a rain tree in which I have taken a number of precautions, with my notebook and a pencil on the back, remember Cosimo Piavasco of Rondo, star of "The Baron in the Trees", who at twelve years gave up his family and the comfort that she represented, by climbing down the trees to not ever.
The work develops a lofty prose, the narrator's description, younger brother of Cosimo, made from trees, landscape, and his noble family is perfect. At times he would appreciate the protection from the sun foliage Shoulders, run the wind sea with our eagerness to read, climb the reader, hand in hand with puberty, the almond and flowering cherry trees, breathe the smell of latex both of the peduncles; want to decorate the walnut trees with moss and orchids to turn in their sole refuge. And lovers of Viola Ondara , the blonde selfish, they will repent of pride from the left forever.
But that, the whole book is an ode to rebellion, a metaphor for the renunciation of comfort and good name, a slap to the elitist pretensions and to strict customs represented at the time - 1767 - by a family formed by the insipid and tame Arminio Piovasco of Rondo, Cosimo's father and a mother with pretensions to general Corradino of Rondo. Joining them at the dinner table, they should feel: Battista, elder sister of the beardless; Fauchelafleur Abbe, his preceptor, and Enea Silvio Carrega lawyer, brother of the Baron. Everyone with a fun and unexpected personalities.
After the reading, some readers may ask: "How to be a rebel in a world full of rebels? Do you rebelling against rebellion ? "Sink into the apathy which prevails productivity? Others identified with the pubescent, think of the dissertations on the subject does modern psychology. What was missing this or that, that Baron and his mother were unable to see signs predicting their behavior, the child's behavior was just the end of the cold in your home. In short, both may raise the issue even a bold claim that psychoactive substances ingested Cosimo! I prefer to leave it as a starting point for the generation of questions from each universe reader, who shall consider written long before the work Arthur Schopenhauer had already completed that "For rebellion is man's original virtue" why today is not surprising that abound rebels without a cause and is preached "rebellion for rebellion" disease spread rapidly and bizarre consequences of easy confusion also with whim. In fact, who recommended the book, a small bourgeois family who expected a businessman or a doctor's estate, after developing a career at Harvard with honors , preferred, a few days of grade leave father, mother and brothers watching a spark. All he confessed a few years later, having to act as some Menganos that annoyed him.
also on the first page of the book, when the boy refused a dish of snails and runs to climb to an oak shouting: "... I do not want and do not want!", The matter may seem a whim; what comes next, the expectation that floats like a leaf on a stream of letters masterfully arranged, is a clear demonstration of what to Italo Calvino, the author meant the issue.
Cosimo, round the branches, keeps his word not to download anymore. And supported by his promise, in the region that you created, it starts to help the poor emancipatory spirit around it. Its influence is so great, that makes a villain, Gian dei Brughi, addict in a reader (the way people free from their clutches). Fabrica almost all the utensils you need and become more skilled in the arts diverse, a number of associations or guilds of trades, as the Hatters Shoemakers or conscientious, welcome it and boast of having a member of noble lineage, lack real talent and overwhelmed.
"Cosimo understood that the associations are the strongest man and highlight the best qualities of each person, and give a satisfaction that is rarely achieved on behalf remaining itself: see how honest and hardworking and capable, because of the worth wanting good things
Or a rebellion proactive philanthropy near and far to distance the world because if the other end of the last piece to stay in fatter and cursing the neighbor, the dog and every one of their fleas , or claim, without being able to yell a few truths to so many who deserve it, the flaws the grocer on the block. "A non-violent protest, no blood and no tears," said Mahatma Gandhi. A rebellion based, as opposed to that of being contrary for no reason other than to see the stunned faces of others (I know many who hate a game if your friends are in it, denigrate a book where comments are in your favor, and lovers of justice and transparent business, idolize the president of the republic when the majority speaks his mind corrupt and deceitful).
But " careful, son, there are those who can piss on us all!" Baron said in an excerpt from the book to Cosimo.
So our beloved rebels prepare for shelter from the consequences that the rust may have on its back. And not just in managing the family business but also in handling the sword, shortly before following his father's funeral, going from one tree to another and leaving a twig with leaves on his coffin, settled about pirates trying to rob people. Then Don Sulpicio faces, pastor of a gang of English living in the trees and calling himself the Holy Inquisition arm, wants to finalization.
Later, Baron, standing on the big walnut tree in the square, take the old attitudes and have fun telling tall tales with variations and different endings. Up One day, Optimo Maximo, his dog, which leads to its former owner, the blonde Viola Ondara, only able to put to shake their rebellion.
This is, broadly speaking, the work that impressed me: the point of taking me to climb a tree and write in your cup, I think (I hope in future I bring to quit my job) gives evidence of the skill with which you can assemble the words, gives rise to many discussions and dwell, even wondering whether the rebellion has no place in love, or vice versa. But as I really rebel in this debate and I have also been almost fell three times and rebel against these letters, the better, and contrary to Cosimo, while wondering what he meant Schopenhauer with that of "The rebellion is the original basis of man "descended ...
I think it must relate to the rebellions that each of us holds: Mrs against the husband who fills demands. The once Lolita against time. The chief executive against that feeling alone has no other way to call and scold all day. The acolyte to priest shows the path of God, the dog with love, the homeless man who cuts the way to cross the street (if hit by a car at rest, but to slow down the miserable). And all officers or those who feel subjected. I will not mention the people and dictator, oppressed and oppressors. Neither the clash of our disclosures of today with yesterday's ideas.
Or maybe just the great Schopenhauer meant that the origin of rebellion lies, as in the work, on a plate: the forbidden that they should not eat Adam and Eve.