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En ocasiones la vida consiste en tratar de desvelar el sentido oculto de las palabras.
«No me considero ateo. El ateo se priva de Dios, de la enorme posibilidad de admitirlo no tanto para sí mismo cuanto para los otros. Dios no es una experiencia, no es demostrable, pero la vida de los que creen en él, la comunidad de los creyentes, sí es una experiencia. No, no soy ateo.
Soy uno que no cree. Todos los días me levanto bastante temprano y releo el hebreo del Antiguo Testamento con obstinación y como algo íntimo. Así aprendo. Siento que los trocitos que voy perdiendo en la rutina cotidiana me son restituidos por una palabra que lentamente sale al encuentro de mi inmovilidad y me conforta con su contenido.
En esta tarea permanezco como no creyente; soy alguien que lee las letras superficialmente e intenta traducirlas de algún modo, en estricta obediencia a esa superficie revelada».
«No me considero ateo. El ateo se priva de Dios, de la enorme posibilidad de admitirlo no tanto para sí mismo cuanto para los otros. Dios no es una experiencia, no es demostrable, pero la vida de los que creen en él, la comunidad de los creyentes, sí es una experiencia. No, no soy ateo.
Soy uno que no cree. Todos los días me levanto bastante temprano y releo el hebreo del Antiguo Testamento con obstinación y como algo íntimo. Así aprendo. Siento que los trocitos que voy perdiendo en la rutina cotidiana me son restituidos por una palabra que lentamente sale al encuentro de mi inmovilidad y me conforta con su contenido.
En esta tarea permanezco como no creyente; soy alguien que lee las letras superficialmente e intenta traducirlas de algún modo, en estricta obediencia a esa superficie revelada».
160 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1997
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About the author
Erri De Luca
156 books713 followersUpon completing high school in 1968 Erri De Luca joined the radical left-wing movement Lotta Continua. After the organization's disbandment he worked as a blue collar at the Fiat factory in Turin and at the Catania airport. He also was as a truck driver and a mason, working in job sites in Italy, France and Africa. He rode relief convoys in Yugoslavia during the war between 1993 and 1999.
He is self-taught in several languages including Ancient Hebrew and Yiddish.
De Luca is a passionate mountain climber. A reclusive character, he currently lives in a remote cottage in the countryside of Rome.
Although he never stopped writing since he was 20, his first book is published in 1989, Non ora, non qui (Not now, not here). Many more books followed, best sellers in Italy, France and Israel, his work being translated and published in Spain, Portugal, Germany, Holland, USA, Brazil, Poland, Norway, Danmark, Romania, Greece and Lithuania. He has himself translated several books of the Bible into Italian like Exodus, Jonah, Ecclesiastes, Ruth, and explored various aspects of Judaism, as a non-believer.
In France, he received the France Culture Prize in 1994 for Aceto, arcobaleno, the Laure Bataillon Award in 2002 for Tre cavalli and, also in 2002, the Fémina Étranger for Montedidio, translated in English as God's Mountain. He was a member of the jury at the Cannes Festival in 2003.
Erri De Luca writes regularly for various newspapers (La Repubblica, Il Manifesto, Corriere della Sera, Avvenire), and magazines.
He is self-taught in several languages including Ancient Hebrew and Yiddish.
De Luca is a passionate mountain climber. A reclusive character, he currently lives in a remote cottage in the countryside of Rome.
Although he never stopped writing since he was 20, his first book is published in 1989, Non ora, non qui (Not now, not here). Many more books followed, best sellers in Italy, France and Israel, his work being translated and published in Spain, Portugal, Germany, Holland, USA, Brazil, Poland, Norway, Danmark, Romania, Greece and Lithuania. He has himself translated several books of the Bible into Italian like Exodus, Jonah, Ecclesiastes, Ruth, and explored various aspects of Judaism, as a non-believer.
In France, he received the France Culture Prize in 1994 for Aceto, arcobaleno, the Laure Bataillon Award in 2002 for Tre cavalli and, also in 2002, the Fémina Étranger for Montedidio, translated in English as God's Mountain. He was a member of the jury at the Cannes Festival in 2003.
Erri De Luca writes regularly for various newspapers (La Repubblica, Il Manifesto, Corriere della Sera, Avvenire), and magazines.
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June 9, 2019
Extremely well versed! A personal, catholic interpretation of some texts of the Bible, but done in the traditional Jewish rabbinical way.
January 8, 2023
Jaime bien la douceur de De Luca. C'est agréable et révoltant
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June 7, 2016A series of meditations on God, the human yearning for something beyond the mundane, and the process of writing. Slow, poetic and thought-provoking.
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