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A PICCOLI PASSI DENTRO LA POESIA
Una lettura degli Idilli di Messina di Friedrich Nietzsche
The work A piccoli passi dentro la poesia is a meditation on the meaning of poetry through the polyphony of multiple literary genres, from twilight lyricism to philosophical reflection. Artistic creation becomes an instrument of knowledge of reality, a magnifying glass capable of capturing the essential, which sometimes hides in the folds of everyday life, or reveals itself suddenly, where the work of imagination is not always necessary. The work is divided into two parts. The first part - Poems - is a collection of verses, in which the lyrical self searches for the blueness of things, sees in the other a possibility of conversation, harmonizes the heartbeats with the movement of Nature, experiences the pathos of distance so as not to betray himself and questions the curvatures of reality, sensing that happiness is in the "while". The second part – A reading of Friedrich Nietzsche’s Idylls of Messina – offers an accurate interpretation of the eight compositions written in Genoa between February and April 1882. The author invites us to get to know more deeply the poetic nature of Friedrich Nietzsche, which does not clash with the philosophical one, but rather supports it. When the philosopher struggles, the poet arrives and offers him a hand on the terrain of the word, because the poetic word knows how to re-say what the philosopher hears in the silence of his thought.
Author
Virginia Varriale (Turin, 1974) is a professor of Philosophy and History at the “Salvatore Di Giacomo” High School in San Sebastiano al Vesuvio (Naples). Over the years, she has deepened her studies and research on the affinities between poetic feeling and philosophical thinking, united, albeit in different forms, by the need for man to seek and tell his own truth.
In 2020, she published Il giovane Nietzsche. Pensoso me ne sto fra carte scrittori e meditate, a new type of critical essay that responds to rigorous historical-interpretative needs and at the same time opens up to an intimate dialogue with a very young philosopher, reconnecting the thread of the letters written from 1850 to 1869.
Author of two poetry collections, Anima sospesa (2016) e Rigoli di luce (2002) and of philosophical-literary essays, such as, Il naufragio del pensiero e della lingua. Saggio sull’Infinito leopardiano. Riflessioni sull’unità di poesia e filosofia (2006); Il nulla leopardiano e l’eterno ritorno di Nietzsche (2002); La storia nel pensiero di Jean Paul Sartre (2002); Libertà e/è politica: riflessioni sul pensiero di Hannah Arendt (2001). made her develop her love for classical music, bringing her to concerts since she was a child. That is how her passion for the violin started, but she was forced to play the piano, which she didn’t play anymore after getting the diploma.
She also developed a strong passion for the ballet, uìbut she was forced to leave it because of her study needs. She attended the Liceo Classico Sannazzato and, after that, she got the teaching qualification at the Scuola Mazzini. Then, she got a degree in Ancient literature with the highet grades and stardet teaching literature until 2007, when she went on retirement.
