We take the right words from an interview with the author:
-The language of poetry that tried to alleviate the wounds caused to me by that place made of capillary crime and apathetic silence would become an entire linguistic system: developed to open them, those wounds - wounds not only mine, but of a whole generation trapped in the Salento malevolence , with its amazing seas, the moving perfumes, the blood on the streets, the ever dirtier money.
I reread Plato in those days. The myth of the cave. I understood, but I didn't admit it: with that novel I would have been out of the cave.
And now that I am the beast it is a real book, I don't know if I can go back and tell everyone that there is a world out there that can do without the Sacra, the illegal jobs, the b & bs perched in the garages.
I do not know.
Because for me Gallipoli is Bernhard's Salzburg in The Unsuccessful: -A city hostile to all that men have more intimate, which over time is annihilated by it-.
Because I am the beast is a novel that tells it, the cave.
And I wanted to write a love and death story. But in the end I think I wrote a hate novel. That saved my life.-
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Andrea Donaera is a 89 class poet and writer from Gallipoli, secretary of the Research Center - PENS: Contemporary Poetry and New Scriptures - since 2016 he has directed the Billie poetry series by the publishing house 'Round Midnight. He is the artistic director of the Poié literary festival in Gallipoli, and of the dialectal poetry festival -Oju lampante-. Since 2017 he has collaborated with the in-depth cultural magazine -Midnight-, taking care of the Urban section dedicated to young Italian poetry.
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