marcin
(Marcin)
#1
keeping with a radical formulation by
Pascoli: βthe language of poetry is always a
dead language.β^10
Despite the difficulty of linkage, which
the exponents of literary Sicilian life have
always experienced, with the important
centers of the publishing world,
concentrated mainly in the North, in its
Italian and dialect output the Sicilian
Twenty-Century is rich with noteworthy
personalities of international repute
(Pirandello, Quasimodo, Vittorini,
Lampedusa, Sciascia, Buttitta). Quite often,
the possibility of entering the most exclusive
literary circuits has meant leaving the island.
The cases of Lampedusa, Piccolo, Bufalino,
are exceptional and due to chance. The
submerged, quality literature is considerable,
full of important forgotten names: one has
only to think of narrators such as Raffaele