Culture. Eat it
25 March 2018
Wait, did you know that Enrico Brizzi’s debut novel Jack Frusciante has left the band has a subtitle?
A majestic love story and parish rock.
I’m upset, but let’s get to the story.
It’s the 1992 and the “old” Alex is a teenager like many others. There are friends, the classical high school, the first love, the typical contrasts of a “middle-class family”, the music and then there is Adelaide called Aidi.
This is not a girl, it’s an entire record of Battisti.
In this sentence there is the answer to many questions: why did it succeed? Why read it today?
The novel Jack Frusciante has left the band remembers not only the removal, at the height of popularity, of the guitarist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers but also it brings to mind to all those who have read it the beauty of everyday life made to history.
Alex knows love: Aidi, more mature, already adult, is able to drive ideally Alex out of the group, to discover the world.
Alex grows up in the band, with the band and despite the band.
If you’re a bum, a junkie, an immigrant, an albano, you’re fucked. They isolate you, you’re out of the group. Then, the group leaves you more or less at peace and apart at the beginning, until you make it too big, and then you end up in jail.
A very young Brizzi tells of a generation, that of the ’80s, far from the youth revolts of the previous generation which, however, musically is still in debt.
Like in that incredible song by the Cure where she is beautiful and the poor looks at her admiringly and she feels offended and Robert Smith says “That’s why I hate you”.
It was as if he had finally managed to embrace the verse of the Beatles, the strange verse that says “Happiness is a warm gun”, which until then seemed to him a kind of metaphor a bit ‘picturesque or a good idea for a poster advertising..
Ramones, Clash, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beatles, Sex Pistols, Led Zeppelin, Cure, Police, Dire Straits, Battisti … great and immortal they become the soundtrack of the story giving the novel the chance to get to all.
It doesn’t matter whether you are, a Millenials or part of Generation Z, music will always be able to talk to you with the same magic.
Reading time
a week without the band
Ph. Sara Cartelli
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Bio:
She is an art historian, optimistic and empathic by nature. She imagines a world where sow kindness enjoying the little things. She's in love with stories since she was a child, for the Eat Culture she eats books and arts. Per aspera ad astra says the only tattoo on her skin. It reminds her that the road that leads to her dreams is not always easy but that she never gives up.
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