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‘After the war, the car industry became the bearer of a new nationalism, and the car the emblem of recovery and a source of collective identification.’

Ben Williams recalls certain moments when he met writers’ ‘strangers within’ – the possessed, or “the attended”, by an attendant who never leaves.

“The first condition is silence,” says the 2022 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, whose most recent book is “The Young Man.” “The when and where do not matter.”

“A poet who is not also a heretic,” Aldo tells me as I lean forward to catch his words, “is not a poet.” As for the miller Menocchio and for Pasolini, heresy was connatured to Federico’s persona—not a mere intellectual exercise. For Pasolini and Federico, furthermore, it was no longer only about the Catholic Church. It had to do, instead, with their inability and unwillingness to participate in the reigning ideologies of their time: petty bourgeois propriety, at first, and the hedonism that crept behind the countercultural movements of the ’60s and ’70s, later, when capitalist ...

A. E. Stallings on the poetry of the 2020 Nobel Prize–winner.