marcin
(Marcin)
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Russo have become more numerous and the
publication of his works (often ill-conceived
and improvised) has created a new,
revitalized interest which is establishing
some order and disciplining a subject matter
already varied and confused in itself due to
the ease with which the author commented
on different topics. As for the dialect, Luigi
Reina remarks: “Without wishing to take up
the well-known distinction between
reflected dialect literature and spontaneous
dialect literature, it must be noted how for
Russo dialect was almost a sort of restoration
of primitive, elementary language, with
norms of its own, autonomous with respect
to those of common language”^15. This
naturalness allows him a great freedom in
his inventions and hyperboles, in his
Baroque metaphors and in his full-relief
portraits of heroes-protagonists caught in a
