marcin
(Marcin)
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Jovine’s translations, egregiously carried out,
but betraying a substantial and distinctive
expressionistic, hyperbolic tendency
underpinning all his works, which reinforces
our instinctive and tested evaluation of his
texts: which constitutes a good signpost for
entering the vital core of his creativity, or
rather of his relationship with reality, with
nature, with himself, with others, material
presences or ghosts of memory.
A more or less complete biographical-
professional sketch can be drawn from the
notes written for him by L. Bonaffini:
“Giuseppe Jovine, poet, short story writer,
journalist, as well as literary and social critic,
has emerged [...] as one of the most serious
and committed writers and intellectuals of
the region of Molise. [...] at the heart of his
work is an abiding concern for the social,
economic and political problems confronting