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L'arte di Charles Schulz: "Piccola storia dei Peanuts"

Gabriele Santoro

ROME (December 2) - "Charles M. Schulz is one of the best teachers from which to be guided in the apprenticeship of happiness." Simona Bassano Tufillo of the precious essay "Brief History of Peanuts (Donzelli, P.. 191, € 19.50) traces the history of art more than any other comic that has built its fortune on the strength of the word as an instrument of progress, entertainment and humor emerged from reflection . The strips of P eanuts with the look "foreign" children drawn with a pen and ink accompanied by Schulz for fifty years and have reserved a special place in American culture (in 1997, came the star on ' Hollywood's Walk of Fame). "An art centered on the social - the author writes - his childhood world is symptomatic of a willingness to become estranged from the problems of social life, but instead alienating half to turn the spotlight from another angle and have greater light. "

This is a guide for fans of a phenomenon become global heritage, but is also accessible to the layman interested in understanding the behind the scenes of the characters (Charlie Brown, Linus, Snoopy, etc.) at least once in life you have given us a smile. The narration is accompanied by numerous illustrations. The life of cartoonist originally from Minnesota is hardly separable from the work of Peanuts: a daily commitment (from 9 to 17, excluding the weekend), incessant, a faithful companion and a vital necessity to satisfy. The unique adventure of the comic world's most popular began Oct. 2, 1950 and ended in 2000 with the death of its creator. These are the numbers of an export turnover of mountains of dollars, two thousand newspapers bought Peanuts strips, 355 million readers have loved and is published in 75 different countries, translated into twenty them Ngue (carried over of the United Media website, agency U.S. authorities).

The world of children represented by Schulz is not a metaphor criticism or caricature of the world often neurotic adults. There is no need to go beyond: Cartoon graphics in the cages, "each reader can identify with - the author points out - but not because they stand in for us adults contemporaries stressed, but for the emotional relationship that we establish with the characters, as well as the consequent process of identification which is also triggered by everyday situations and common representative. " The Peanuts characters against the backdrop of small town America actually declined in their minimal, where space is of the very contract, form relationships, understanding and a spirit of solidarity through the speech act. Schulz addresses the cult of individualism, a typical characteristic of American society, interpreted as bubble with the image of snowflakes (defined by Snoopy "the last stubborn individualists") are all different but in the end indistinguishable form a mass. "A subject very dear to defending individual differences, but without a shadow of selfishness in the name of the variety as a source of life. Each character is unique, a bit 'like a snowflake, but it is the group that is the size of the bubble. " Not only enjoy the "Peanuts", which teach us to laugh at ourselves without taking too seriously.