Culture. Eat it
27 October 2015
“Fear: primary emotion, common to both the human race and the animal kingdom. It is dominated by the instinct that has as its main goal the survival of the subject to a substantiated dangerous situation. ” Wikipedia rules. Fear? What is it for Max? he just zips up his wolf suit and he’s done. Besides courage he is also made up of fear, which he got plenty of. Who is Max? He is a child who lives in Where the wild things are, a magical picture book Maurice Sendak used in the 60s – then as now – to speak boldly to kids.
Locked in his room after the punishment received because of his wild things, Max reacts with imagination: he lands in another world inhabited by creatures with sharp teeth to which soon he will prove to be their worthy king. But fear of what? The wild things represent these unknown places of the mind where we run when anger erupts and where fear hides. Max maybe is just scared of what he did, the loneliness and estrangement of his parents … but the illustrations of the author, in the many valuable techniques in pen ink and watercolors, will defeat concern and bring him back to his room led by familiar scent of good things.
We stare to a classic. Why? For several reasons but mainly because fear has no time nor accurate recipients, it captures all adults and children. Come on, mom and dad, take your little ones in your arms and make this journey with them. No coincidence that the author says I do not write for children. I do not write for adults. I just write. Maurice Sendak is a timeless genius.
Time of reading: Halloween night
Photography: Sara Cartelli.
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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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