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Erri De Luca: My Moses moved the mountain

A preview of an interview with poet and writer Erri De Luca - a great knowledge of Scripture - which will be released in a short book on the figure of Moses "E said " published by Feltrinelli. De Luca describes Moses as the first climber in history.

The interview was released today with the newspaper Avvenire.

OF ALESSANDRO BOTTELLI
ow A man casts his eyes elsewhere. Lightweight, seems to measure the distance between the horizon itself. He turns. Moistens his lips, perhaps too long forgotten by the negligence of the liturgical glass half empty. In the eyes - quiet cemeteries experience - the passing of an occasional puff cool and spacious, brought there by some top just glimpsed and never mind owned real . Familiar climber, intimacy with the climbs that scrape away the breath. It must be lonely, where the voice leads him, opening a passage way for harsh, rugged, not yet baptized or strokes from tears or sweat. Often modulate their imagination behind the walls of secluded, pure cliffs where even the ability of the mind becomes more brittle. And sometimes, even slippery. A cloud over our heads graces the sky, without too many claims. Between me and Erri De Luca, as if to establish the separation of a crossing, reflected the latest draft And he said, in Feltrinelli output next week (96 pages, € 10.00). Visibly taciturn. Tonic. Tenacious. Dotted pages for days already become familiar, sentimental anticipates my index, in silence, seeking the initiation .
What kind of man is 'your' Moses?
"It's saved. The only one who escapes the destruction of the births of Jewish children ordered by the Pharaoh, worried by the increase of the Jewish minority population residing in Egypt. Moses is the only survivor. And then he condensa l’energia dei suoi coetanei, di tutte quel­le vite negate. È un ammi­nistratore delegato delle loro forze, che non hanno avuto modo di manifestar­si. Ha dunque questa energia in e­subero, talmente sovrabbondante da fargli inciampare la lingua. In­fatti è balbuziente. E non per ridu­zione, ma per eccesso: balbetta per sovraccarico di forza che quel­la lingua deve esprimere. Lui è ne­cessariamente l’unica scelta della divinità. Non ce n’è un’altra».
Di quale carisma era dota­to Mosè, tanto da poter spostare un intero popolo radicato in Egitto da ven­tuno generazioni?
"Moses was a carrier of energy needed to liberate and leave. He was able to stand, with his words, the task that the gods had given him. Words with a force of displacement, before rooting, such as to be able to move an entire population - number, now, because Egypt is moving more than a half million lives - from the very long residence.
Those individuals are to all intents and purposes of the Egyptian citizens, even if they belong to a minority. And the news that convinces them it is the promise of a 'land of milk and honey has menstruation'. This is not a land drips, drips or oozes milk and honey, but that the verb of female menstruation. A news item checked in the mouth of the gods, and then on the lips of Moses. That word says that the earth will have the same future fertility of the Jewish woman. Legendary fertility, bursting, such as to frighten even Pharaoh.
entered Egypt in seventy male units, the people of Israel again multiplied immensely. Then the gods seek to generate the force of the Jewish woman to tell the promised land. Milk and honey are not then just the ingredients of the breakfast, but a formula to say that the site will be suitable for both agriculture and pastoralism.
The milk symbolizes the earth, where livestock is reared and honey, however, the pollination of plants, the possibility of growing fruit trees and develop agriculture. It is a region that then holds the crafts of Cain and Abel, where each may find cohabitation. "
Moses is one used to climb in solitude: "He went to desire to break away from the field, from the items, rose to expulsion." What goes looking for a man far from others?
"It's looking away. And if the prosecutor. The shepherds are usually loners for a living. Maybe even a vocation. David, for example, is a pastor by vocation. Like, that loneliness.
In the midst of silence has developed his gifts: a musical invention aims infallible. He is, in fact, the first singer of sacred history, the one who writes and sings most of the psalms. We invent, to keep company in the solitude of the distant pastures. At same way, we can define the first climber of the Moses story. One used to climb the mountains. Sinai / Horev - which also means 'Drought', because a name is not enough for a town so important - salt three times. The first, even barefoot, when the gods asked him to dig the sandals on that ground. And the other two for a double set of tables of the law. Then he accompanies his brother to die on Mount Hor. And he dies a climber on Mount Nebo, beyond the Jordan. It is up there that the gods made him see the land where he will not come.
Because of his biography, we can thus say that Moses knows his stay in the mountains. And we know also go by myself. "
"You shall not covet property of others. " In the past, have you ever been stung by envy?
"No. It is a sentiment that has not caught on with me and did not work. On the contrary, I often feel a sense of admiration. I'm glad to see something that I express wonder and surprise me. But I do not want to take the place of admiration. The envious but is believed to be authorized to substitute for the person or thing envied. No, no, I envy is transitive.
The admiration is intransitive. And I'm capable of, but certainly not make the journey to take the place of another. I keep what I have, because I did not want him to anyone. "
Among the Ten Commandments carved into the rock socket of men, there is someone with whom you often had to do?
"'From the weight of your father and your mother'. I was lucky enough to have them close for a long time, so I'm fond of that commandment. "
But it was not always so: as a boy you went home ...
"Yes, I left. I have moved away from them and then I found further, later in time. "
and found, what have you discovered from your parents?
"What I had always followed, even from afar. I had never been reported missing. Neither were resigned to my distance. "