A COLONIAL EXPERIENCE OUT THE SAHARAN OF THEME AFRICA “To really live. Not just to let my life pass”. this is what Ernest Hemingway wrote about Africa. a land of telluric emotions, irrational forces, magic. Alberto Moravia said it was: “a land where the relationship between man and nature is not mediated by history”. A land where the lack of media- tions triggers visceral upsets, primordial charms, fears, now as then. an explosive cocktail that during the xix century caused the fever of adven- turers, explorers, aesthetes, artists. A COLONIAL EXPERIENCE OUT THE SAHARAN OF THEME AFRICA Everybody in search of places writer and British secret agent, where and again the pureness to the couple of American fil- of the emotion and inspiration. makers Martin and Osa John- Africa becomes a symbol of son, authors of the first docu- the perfect Elsewhere, dividing mentaries about Africa. Martin, line between fantasy and reali- adventure companion of Jack ty. and, in order to satisfy more London, created the reportage ore less noble desires, Every- and the naturalist cinema; Osa body goes there. From David inspired the heroine of King Livingstone, who discovered Kong (1933). From Hemingway Victoria falls, to the explorer to Moravia, Georges Simenon Henry Morton Stanley; from and Karen Blixen, Andrè Gide Gertrude Bell, archaeologist, and Saul Bellow (“Africa tou- ched my soul already during in love with the missionary Ka- the flight: up there looked like a tharine Hepburn, and Mogam- bed of ancient humanity”). Pe- bo (1953), where Clark Gable is ter Beard goes there, the great divided between two beautiful photographer who tells about ladies: Ava Gardner and Grace the disappearance of elephan- Kelly. 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