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PRIMO LEVI


In fact, the meat of the bear with the film Sean Penn has to do and how.
ran the credits and the emotions unleashed by the pictures, the mixed sleep caused by the late hour, I had left inert in the chair of film with his eyes still fixed on the screen. The writing went quickly, but - I am sure - the words "P. Levi "and" Bear Meat "I read them. It was a passing lightning and unconscious, to the memory directly from the retina, bypassing the rational consciousness.
The bear meat is a topical subject in the story Iron Primo Levi's The Periodic Table content will . It is those experiences strong and "extreme" in which we hunt when the strength and boldness of the young age lead us to our limits as possible. Specifically, the two protagonists miscalculated the time in the history of mountain climbing and find themselves having to bivouac on the banks of a frozen pond.
"topped the five, I pull the wing as to penalty, Sandro in the throes of hilarity left, which I found irritating.
- And to get off?
- To go down we will see, - he replied, and added mysteriously - the worst that can happen is to taste the flesh of the bear -. Well, the taste, the meat of the bear in the course of that night, we found that long. "
Iron is Sandra, a fellow University of the First: "... it was bound to the iron from a former relationship: the fathers of his fathers, he told me, were tinkers and blacksmiths ... In the winter, when he attacked the dry ski tied to the rusty bicycle, left early, and pedaled up to the snow, without money, and the other with a pocket full of artichoke salad: then returned in the evening or the next day, sleeping in barns, and more storms and hunger he had suffered, more was better and was glad to health. "
The fact that in the movie Into the Wild has mentioned this story seemed to me very much in line with the story of Christopher McCandless who, out of a desire for adventure and freedom, he died alone in a school bus abandoned in the wilderness of ' Alaska, after two years of wandering for America. It only remained to examine how the meat of the bear has come to Alexander Supertramp.
Jon Krakauer's book, from which the film is based, in meticulously reconstructing the whole story, Primo Levi is not mentioned. The search becomes more complicated, but Google runs to the rescue of the curious. It turns out that Bear meat is the title of a story published in The New Yorker cultural magazine in January 2007 and released in the compilation of texts of Levi A tranquil star , published in the United States during the same period.
We can only assume (but it's nice to think that way) that Sean Penn has already read the story while working on the film, and it remained so fascinated to want to insert a citation. Only the sensitivity of some men can give a story that inexhaustible force that makes the current in every time and everywhere. They are the slender threads of imagination and fantasy of the subtle links that lead from Primo Levi to Sean Penn, Sandro Christopher McCandless.
"This was the meat of the bear: and now, that many years have passed, I regret having eaten little since, of all that life has given me good, did nothing, even remotely, the taste of the meat, which is taste of being strong and free, free even to make mistakes, and masters of their destiny .

Primo Levi, The Periodic , Einaudi 1975
Jon Krakauer, In extreme lands , 1998 Corbaccio
P. Levi, Iron in mountain stories edited by David Long, Einaudi 2007

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