"I proved scientifically and dialectically
all may spring from the Gog of Papini "
Juan José Arreola in accepting the award in 1992 Juan Rulfo
This winter is good time to read" Gog ", the most famous novel by Giovanni Papini where the author himself plays a character who admires Gog, protagonist of the story, a guy I know in the asylum and has no scruples. The novel is set in a time-fascist war in the early 30's, takes place in a curious argument acetic turn, and which calls into question the religious ideology, the ideological-political system and the old ways of man white. Clearly
literary and philosophical position of the work and many believe that Gog is the best literary work Papini, followed by "black book." For the first Papini was critical of the hegemonic system, and the second a conclusion of the degradation of man after the Second World War.
The same Juan Jose Arreola said that "Gog is a world of many signs pointing to people, things, works, literary items, spiritual situations, a crisis" *, showing the strong influence of Latin American these books have had winters.
Achievement This book was not the complexity of writing, but in the originality of his style: crazy himself and defender of his own art. Papini So long line between the philosophical, poetic and metaphysical.
The first point involves the reader in a diligent, obscene, criminal, making it fragile and elegant. Papini exceeds the limits, not enough things wrong or have raised, he tries to mention the madness of Gog, worldly tastes, rough, but rhetorical, peaceful, some experimental methods unethical or moral: collecting giant pig hearts, bones of famous shopping, finance scientific projects to make men brutes, buying countries.
The narrator surprises us with his thoughts, what if he saw a pair of entities, a hunchback, mad scientists, cannibals, murderers innocent, intellectual, revolutionary? Yes, always surprised with the simplicity of the word, the word harmonious that shines in the minds and hearts of any man, worldly, frustrated, religious, political, criminal, absurd, stupid, the word becomes lost on the world Papini . The peak is always free to read and think, in the words of Papini, "because this is the most expensive thing in the economic sense and moral "**.
The critical and secretive is present in each story, provided everything is upside down, Papini seen in the simple, rational where the eye can not see, in those little theoretical and philosophical as think of a story told from present to past, a majestic but bourgeois literature and class, the importance of studying lice, poetry industry, etc.
Gog is surrounded by elements that describe experiences and unusual things, a product of his travels, places and scenarios, completely out of step with the usual logic and everyday life: abandoned cities, new sculptures, the strength at sea, an island with antimoralist codes but justifiable and mindful.
In simple terms, Gog is outside of established mechanisms of industrial society, in the greatness of the release "of the customs of their own race" ** (the European case), in the midst of nothing and the complexity of the whole as a know inappropriate, that there degraded by the political and economic system, there in that corner that they have "only those who have enjoyed all the powers, whose refuge is the impotence
.** So Gog is not a recommendation either reading, but rather, a provocation for the discovery of the closest to the meaning of life and the world's recognition of their smallness, in places unimaginable, in the midst of worldly observation, eccentric, exceptional everyday. It is also a challenge to look closely at those places unexplored by pure reason.
* Marco Antonio Campos. 1986. Viva voce (Conversations with writers), Mexico: awards, National Council for Culture and the Arts. **
Giovanni Papini. 1961. Gog. 5 th th edition. Mexico: ed. Diana
