Naples, Alberto Angela and Roberto Saviano are like Yin and Yang
by Daniele Sanzone
Alberto Angela It is to Roberto Saviano how Yang (white) is Yin (black). Their narratives, albeit with different languages, codes and times, are specular. They are both true or, if you prefer, both false. Old and common places that we love to visit so much in Italy.
One could not exist without the other, they are two sides of the same coin, a thick and heavy medal. And that thickness is exactly the measure of the nuances that both narratives lack. Without that thickness, the coin ceases to be a tale, to become thin as a coriander, black or of a thousand colors, which is lost in the wind. Although Alberto Angela said he wanted to talk with, Tonight a, the lights and not the shadows of Naples. What that instead Gomorrah, and Saviano, has never explained, as if his were the real Naples or at least the one closest to reality, and not also an entertainment and business product.
In recent years, Saviano has centralized the narrative of the city, as if he were the holder of the truth, creating as a result many opposite narratives and therefore feeding the yang without ever, and I say never, get into the nuances. Luigi Compagnone used to say that “Often those who denounce the naples abandon themselves to the same end of despair and become an accomplice of the horror”. Meanwhile, Naples is the only city in Italy, and perhaps in the world, which continues to live on its own story, without ever healing, perhaps because healing would far mean ceasing to talk about oneself.