marcin
(Marcin)
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archaic, but also “pithy” manifestations of
popular life, or rather rural life, since the
sources of inspiration for his creativity were
the community, work, the seasons, the
customs of Molisan farmers in the first
decades of this century.
It is on this twofold track that moves the
poetic invention of the author from
Campobasso, who conferred nothing
authentically new and original to “rustic”
literary tradition, which had been grounded
for centuries on the classic, ambivalent
relationship between city and country,
urban and rural, civil and instinctive, which
entailed the adoption of this double
representation of the naturalistic, rustic
element (the country as the privileged place
of natural harmony, peacefulness and
oblivion, bucolic alternative to the chaos and
noise of the city, to turmoil and anxiety, but