Eyes wide open: watching, seeing and sharing with others
€ 3.00The expression “eyes wide open” implies something less visible; the total awareness derived from seeing, acknowledging what one sees, and noticing others and “the other”. Is sharing possible if one’s eyes aren’t wide open? Without this kind of scrutiny or attitude that fuels the continuous examination of everything that happens before and around us? Laura Bosio turned her gaze to traditional literature, poetry and spirituality and the answers she “saw” are more multi-faceted and broader than evidence would have us believe. The eyes through which we see here belong to Fernando Pessoa, Umberto Saba, Angela da Foligno, María Zambrano, the Buddha, Al-Ghazali, Wislawa Szymborska (who shares with us the “courtesy of the blind”) and Baudelaire who, after having looked through a closed window at the life he was living, dreaming and suffering, observed: “I go to bed proud that I have lived and suffered in someone besides myself”.
Laura Bosio was born in Vercelli and now lives and works in Milan as an editorial consultant. In 1997 she collaborated on the treatment and screenplay for the film Le acrobate by Silvio Soldini. She was a lecturer in Writing Techniques for the Master in Journalism at the Università Cattolica in Milan, and she is a contributor to the newspaper Avvenire. Her first foray into fiction came with I dimenticati (Feltrinelli, 1993) winning the Bagutta Prize for a first novel. This was followed by Annunciazione (Mondadori, 1997, new edition Longanesi 2008), awarded the Moravia Prize; Le ali ai piedi (2002), Teresina. Storie di un’anima (2004) by Mondadori; Le stagioni dell’acqua (2007, a finalist in Italy’s top literary award, the Strega Prize), Le notti sembravano di luna (2011) by Longanesi; D'amore e di ragione. Donne e spiritualità (Laterza, 2012).
Laura Bosio & i Dialoghi
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