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| page 12 of the Manifesto, Sunday, October 17, 2004 |
Il Manifesto, Sunday, October 17, 2004 (p.12)
Bernard Lazare
Ink hatred tell the truth
Marco Dotti
"The hatred is holy," declared Émile Zola . Thirty years after the words, in 1866, the writer had put to introduce Mes haines , fell to a young man feared literary critic by the name of Bernard Lazare collect the witness and say that 'in literature, as well as in politics and art, the 'Hatred is a passion for original and indispensable. " Exercising critical remarked Lazare , intransigence, rather than a golden rule or a virtue, is a vital necessity and a moral necessity. "Concise up to be lapidary, severe to cruelty" - Lazare, according to what he wrote in April 1897 - Léon Blum, "was the first of his generation to give some color to the criticism." The slip of Blum, who spoke of the past thirty-two Lazare, appeared even then indicative of early and subtle, ideological removal soon after it was reserved for the work of the writer jew. At the end of 1896, in fact, began his journalistic vision to blurred and his name, pronounced softly now, became a source of embarrassment rather than fear. They were not liked or tones, to say the least on, used in the course of a polemic against the anti-Semite Edouard Drumont nor its reconnaissance deemed too libertarian and anarchist, the Jewish question.
author of fairy tales geared to finally Lazare would be found, once again, the part of Zola in defense of Dreyfus . Deeply involved in the demolition of the deal, then taken to a widespread counter-information activities to try, in addition to the innocence of the military accused of collaboration, such as the climate of hate that was spreading was not detached from the growing fear of foreigners held because - as he wrote Maurice Barres in a series of articles , embarrassing news, titled Contre l' étranger - della corruzione dei costumi, del crollo demografico e del deperimento fisico del «genio» francese. Ebrei, stranieri, e anarchici. Perché se il 1894 si era chiuso con la condanna dell'ufficiale ebreo, a inaugurarlo erano stati i processi sommari e il ghigliottinamento di Auguste Vaillat , responsabile di un attentato dinamitardo contro la Camera dei deputati, e di Italo Caserio , che a Lione aveva pugnalato il Presidente della Repubblica Carnot . Frutto del nuovo impegno di Lazare furono , tra gli altri, libri che non mancarono di suscitare interesse e scalpore come Contre l' Antisemitism a volume of ninety-six pages, published in 1896.
Extended by a useful appendix of testimonials and documents, the volume is currently being proposed by Massimo Sestili , by Datanews (Against Anti-Semitism, 2004, pp . 174, € 11.36) , and is one of the best opportunities offered to the Italian reader to approach, without too much embarrassment or reluctance, to the figure, the work and commitment equally complex Lazare . Following his untimely death, just thirty-nine, Charles Peguy drew a sleek profile and passionate about what he considered "among the greatest prophets of Israel." "One of the scariest documents human ingratitude" - confessed Peguy - "was the treatment Lazare soon after launch and the apparent triumph, the triumph of false Dreyfus." His "total disregard, darkness, solitude, the contempt in which it dropped, when it dropped, where did you perish. was already dead before he died. It seemed that they ashamed of him. But they ashamed of themselves in front of him. "
On 27 June 1903, just before undergoing the surgery that would have been fatal, Lazare filed its devises a notary in Paris. Lived in poverty, had no money to leave his wife, but also confessed that he had guarded for a long time, a secret. "For ten years," it said, "work on a book about Jews whose title should be The fumier de Job. I think if one of my friends would take my notes, could draw a volume of reflections on the essential Jewish, their history, their attitudes on their philosophy. It would be the best memory could do to my memory. "
The book was published in a shortened version, only in October 1928. A few weeks ago, with the title The manure of Job, the book is now available in Italian (translated Annamaria Carenzi , with an essay by Hannah Arendt, Medusa, 2004, 125 pages, 13 €). A beautiful text, to be read under track, marked by a fragmented style, lucid and caustic analysis, rigorous in form, in which Lazare appear to accomplish the ability to carve, never overdetermined, parole e immagini. Libro denso e tagliente, scritto guardando dal basso, dallo sterco su cui giace Giobbe, l'atroce spettacolo di tempi dominati da odio e paura, e tutto quanto «giorno dopo giorno sfiora la pelle, rendendo l'ebreo un animale nevrastenico, logorandone il cuore se è un tipo sensibile, acuendone il disprezzo se è un intellettuale, risvegliandone il desiderio di violenza o vendetta se è un sanguigno ». «Il letame di Giobbe», scriveva Lazare , «sarà il fiore del mio spirito, la mia carne, il mio sangue». Fu la sua ultima diserzione.
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