Lali Alvarez
Sometimes life makes us wait for the things that make us happy. This is not always the case. The release of “Ragazzo” comes nine years after the premiere and twelve years after I started writing it. And it makes me happy. It makes me happy because I feel that it is exactly the book I wanted to do, with the prologues by Gabriel Sevilla and Jesús Rodríguez, and with the epilogue by Haidi Gaggio, Carlo Giuliani's mother.
I have dedicated the book to the oriol, for being the source of this garment already my son, who I dream that he will be the recipient, in some way, someday. And I have dedicated it thinking in the words of Galeano, in an interview that they do to him in Plaça Catalunya during the 15M where he says: “There is another world in the belly of this world, waiting, that is a different world and of difficult birth, it is not easy that it is born, but if it is sure that it is beating in this world that I care that it is going to happen to me and neither. it announces on another possible time that will be. But what it will be in the end... I do not know.... This is like that magical moment of love when it happens. Love is like this. It's infinite, while it lasts and the important thing is that it's infinite while it lasts.”
That's how I feel the time that “Ragazzo” narrates was, and that's how I feel all important things are: infinite while they last. And to write them, to publish them, to put them on paper, is, in a way, to want them to continue for as long as they last, is to want them to be infinite. Like people are, as long as we remember them, and works, as long as we represent them.
And infinite is how I wish imagination and optimism to my son's generation, who will have to live in the world that is in the womb of the world of now, and that I strongly wish it to be a fairer, freer and more humane world than the one of now.
Lali Álvarez
Vilassar de Dalt, October 2024.