Vanna Vannuccini interviewed for Republic on June 1, Uwe Tellkamp, \u200b\u200bauthor of the novel tower. The work is part of what is now a rich seam essay-narrative that has its roots in the analysis of phenomena surrounding the existence (and fall) of the Berlin Wall.
For fans of the theme is easy to recall the film Goodbye Lenin , as well as an interesting collection of essays Nostalgia , edited by Bruno Mondadori.
The recent twenty years since the fall of the Wall has certainly favored the release of new contributions on the subject, and The tower, in fact, gives us new life and total immersion in the GDR, its contradictions, its paradoxes.
"Life - says Tellkamp - was full of contradictions. On one hand, the time had slowed down, and this slowdown caused a strange time shift. We read Thomas Mann, Bassani, Tomasi di Lampedusa, and we seemed to speak to us of our time. We too felt abandoned to ourselves, we felt that something was ending, as we celebrated the leopard dissolved worlds and values, and were therefore condemned to the melancholy. "
is not, of course, nostalgia for a state petty, dictatorial, obtuse, penetrated by a monstrous network of spies. It is, rather, after twenty years, and before the "magnificent and progressive" a development model that has felt able to walk on the rubble of the wall victorious, it is, I mean, to look for alternative and intriguing view other models of society, to distinguish between the country and the state, a country that had "its sides quiet, modest, reassuring."
This is the difference between that, especially today Tellkamp identifies authors from East and West: in the first "remains a desire for utopia, social worship survey, the belief in the role social art, and the desire to be "serious", respect for tradition, the need to compete with the big names of the past. "
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