Paolo Rumiz, “A voice out of depths” (Arthaud)

The bowels of the earth. Etna, Vesuvius, Stromboli. Therefore, Here is A voice out of the depths. Consequently, Who rumbles, who tumults, who tips, allegorical and inspired fresco, long sound and hiker prose playing on the tremors of a story much older than the human species. For example, After so many works celebrating what is on the surface of the globe. Consequently, in his native Italy as in Europe, the great writer Trietin born in 1947 is interested in what is happening below. In addition, “I was the son of a trembling land. Meanwhile, I belonged to him and wanted to see inside. Meanwhile, […] I thought to myself that there was not elsewhere in the world a country such as Italy. with its meli-melo of science, myth and history so fascinating and so solidly based on its basement. He therefore started. paolo rumiz, “a voice out results in this work from part of his reports to The Republic, A journey that exposes a kind of intimate stratification to hear the groans of the planet, watch its vomit of incandescent lava and feel its toxic gas rejections.

Rumiz takes up the method that made the success of his previous passenger books. as The legend of the mountains that sail (Arthaud, 2017, more than 8,000 copies GFK) or Appia (Arthaud, 2019, more than 6,000 GFK copies), namely the story of his expeditions, the memory of his innumerable readings, this subtle mixture of erudition and malice always well placed, and of course his meetings with historians, scientists or lost like him, especially not ready to find the right path. Add expression happiness like ” The stars were silent. crystal clear, desert, caravan », « She talks to the sea with her feet “(Said by a woman of a woman paolo rumiz, “a voice out in the mid-moist water on a Sicilian beach, sandals in hand) or” below, the devil is cook his pasta “, Reflection of a guide on the edge of a crater.

In the light of this volcanic Italy. we understand otherly its Neapolitan mysteries like the Rite of the Miracle of San Gennaro. “” I felt that I was approaching at the heart of the mystery. The blood that liquefies is the symbol of a magmatic transubstantiation. We ask the lava to do the opposite of blood, to freeze. From this turbulent past. Rumiz also evokes the eruption of Vesuvius in 1631 raising fears of a new Pompeii, the earthquake in the Strait of Messina in 1908 or the earthquake which destroyed in 1968 the Sicilian village of Gibellina, then rebuilt a few kilometers. On these porous lands. with his tunnels and his caves, he feels something forgotten, the presence of paolo rumiz, “a voice out imminent death, this death also a source of fertility, hence the attachment of the Sicilians and the Neapolitans to their tragic mountains. This world where the outside. the inside communicate tells us that what we have to fear does not necessarily come from the bowels of the earth. In a way, this “voice out of the depths” proves Sartre right. Hell is not below, but above!

Paolo Rumiz
A voice out of the depths
Arthaud
Translated from the Italian by Béatrice Vierne
Draw: 5,500 ex.
Price: € 22; 480 p.
ISBN: 9782080462503