Read these pages now well aware of current reality brought me the same feelings that I had tried to read some pages of Mayakovsky (VVM) in "Comrade government.'s political writings."
page where the passion and enthusiasm were alive and palpable, as the pages that told time is never enough to do many things that were deemed necessary. The nights spent to build, paint, write, speak, because it was necessary to speak, was part of life, it was essential to life, was life.
Reading the VVM, see how today, with a few clicks, you could do what once required days, and note that the extreme accessibility is not Socratic, or rather is tarpante .... sad. "But how - one wonders - now no longer needed posters, pens, huge printing machines ... now that everything is so simple and feasible, where the desire to do? "It 's the sense of loss that affects all the more acute as many are the possibilities that today we open, we do not use and which do not give value.
This is the kind of sadness induced by the reading of "almost parallel universes", this time is the sense of loss for what could be and was not. For what is supposed to be, and has not been .
The book speaks of missed opportunities, of inconclusive battles, performing arts, literary criticism, attempts to channel the energies - from below and above - Towards a new imaginary. It speaks of a time when not only science fiction was popular and widely read (at the time the players just seemed to tout court and seemed even less than those of science fiction, but as you can clearly see, there is never any limit to the worse), but popular and widespread was also thinking about today in critical but constructive, in a perspective drawing, no matter near or far, picture of the future. Contemplating
post than we did then, what were the hopes, ideas and how little or nothing is left, is an exercise hard: for who was there, but was distracted and did not hear a clamor that far; for those who were there and did not want to hear, almost predicting the inanity; for those who had fought and, for these, the book is painful.
If there was, however, the book is interesting and instructive: it tells a story recently which is never discussed, points to new readers that it always pays to question what we read and, if not we read, the stories still come to us, and it is important to think about it. There is a thread that binds Blade Runner, Minority Report, Screamers, If Spotless Mind, A Scanner Darkly, Total Recall, Inception, Matrix, and another that binds 1984, Brazil, The Truman Show, V for Vendetta, 1997 Escape from New York, Equilibrium: follow these threads is one of the best things that anyone who loves the stories can do for himself. This book helps us better understand what we see, to make us see better what we want, if we find the courage to desire. Hopefully.
Denise Bresci
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