Ripescaggio casuale, facendo ricerche nella cartella dei materiali archiviati: “Sometimes I wonder if people have lost their sense of what fiction can do, the idea being that there’s life over here and fiction over there and there’s no connection. Assumptions about the privacy and the autobiographical nature of fiction took over somehow, as well as a characteristically American idea that fiction is not practical and has nothing to do with the hard and serious business of getting along in life.” Così Doctorow, intervistato dal New York Times il 20 dicembre 1987. Insomma, come spesso capita con le diatribe letterarie ed editoriali, tutto si ripete; quasi quarant’anni fa già si parlava degli eccessi di autobiografismo, ma la finzione — evviva, evviva — ha in fondo resistito senza difficoltà.
(05/04/26)