"I always disembark in Naples with anxiety. I feel like I'm stepping onto a treacherous stage, where the performance is choral and you are observed and treated like the newcomer. You fear the pitfalls of the stage and the complicity of the audience. These may be prejudices and even ancestral legacies of the villager who landed in the historic capital of his kingdom, like a mask from my village, Don Pancrazio Cucuzziello, who was tricked in Naples because of his naive peasant crudeness. But when I arrive in Naples, I feel a danger that I don't even feel in the most unsafe Arab or South American cities. I endure the Neapolitan hell only as a necessary transit to access the paradise of its islands and peninsulas or to enjoy the company of a few friends. I will not write yet another essay on Naples, the Camorra, and feelings; if anything, I would write about a great failed capital. One that fascinates with the voluptuousness of its decline, almost the coquetry of undressing in public."
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From ‘'A occidente, il Regno di Napoli’' (To the West, the Kingdom of Naples), in ‘'Ritorno al Sud’' (Return to the South), Mondadori, p. 183.
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