I completely agree. Mythologization is not the approriate word here
indeed: 'sensationalization', that's what this book is about. The
sentence the list owner quotes from the text demonstrate this clearly.
It was also this writer - Oliver Ritter - who made a rather
'decadent' painting of Evola, although opinions on this may differ.
--- In evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, "evola_as_he_is"
<evola_as_he_is@...> wrote:
>
>
> Relatively speaking, this reminds us of a movie by a Jewish actor
> which, as recalled by Evola in the various articles he wrote in 1941
> in 'La Vita Italiana' about the distorting and infectious influence
> of the Jewish forma mentis in literature and art, was banned in
> America a few days after it was out, and which we haven't
> watched : 'The Great Dictator'.
>
> Leaving aside that you can hardly 'mythologise' someone by saying
> that "Seine neurotische Haushälterin tyrannisiert ihn. Um den „Punkt"
> zu finden, der seine gegen-wärtige Situation erklärbar macht, ißt er
> von seiner geheimnisvollen Schokolade", what's the point of such
> thing? Julius Evola is not a famous historical figure : to caricature
> and to mock an almost unknown man in a book is pointless, in terms of
> sale, and we'd insult a publishing house such as regin-verlag, which
> has published books by Evola, by suggesting that their highly
> respectable staff has something else in mind than sale figures. Why
> not publishing instead comic books (for children and big children)
> based on the too-little-known private life of figures like the
> Rothschilds, Söros or - for the sake of alliteration - Straw?
>
> Let's not make people jealous.
>
>
> --- In evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, "lordofthespear"
> <hailtocryptogram@> wrote:
> >
> > [Personally I don't know what to think of this. Although it speaks
> for
> > itself that most people who are interested in Evola and
> traditionalism
> > are also to a certain extent interested in Evola's personal life,
> I'm
> > afraid that a book such as this (although I haven't read it yet) is
> an
> > unwanted form of mythologization of the person (in this case Evola),
> > which is in sharp contrast with the 'depersonalisation' Evola
> himself
> > propagated. But I might be wrong. Let's just say I rather read a
> good
> > biography.]
> >
> > Source:
> > http://www.regin-verlag.de/shop/product_info.php?
> info=p210_Ein+Tag+im+Leben+des+Julius+Evola.html
> >
> > Ein Tag im Leben des Julius Evola
> >
> > Julius Evola, der große italienische Kulturphilosoph, sitzt
> von Alter
> > und Krankheit geplagt in seiner verdunkelten Wohnung am Corso
> Vittorio
> > Emanuele. Seine neurotische Haushälterin tyrannisiert ihn. Um den
> > „Punkt" zu finden, der seine gegen-wärtige Situation erklärbar
> macht,
> > ißt er von seiner geheimnisvollen Schokolade. Bilder aus seinem
> > bewegten Leben tauchen auf: DADA, Rendezvous mit Frauen, die
> > „Satanspriesterin" Maria Naglowska, Riten in einem Mithräum,
> > Begegnungen mit Fellini, Graf Dürckheim, Mussolini und
> > „evelomanischen" Studenten. Erinnerung mischt sich mit Gegenwart,
> die
> > Situation in der Wohnung spitzt sich zu. Der Autor zeigt
> Sachkenntnis
> > — nicht nur, was die Symptome der Querschnittslähmung, sondern auch
> > Einzelheiten aus Evolas Vita bis zum Ambiente der römischen
> > „Zwanziger" betrifft. Der Bericht ist zwar eine fiktive Geschichte,
> > doch beschwört er den Mythos Evola mit beklemmder Eindringlichkeit.
> > Das Schicksal eines zerschmetterten Helden im Horizont der antiken
> > Tragödie. 130 Seiten, s./w. Abb., engl. Broschure mit
> Schutzumschlag.
> > 13,50 Euro Die Auslieferung erfolgt ab der ersten Augustwoche 06'
> >
>