marcin
(Marcin)
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the landscape, social engagement,
emigration, poverty, ethical disposition,
which exorcise any possible risk of
autobiographical self-withdrawal. In
Curcio’s bibliography, fundamental is the
volume Chi canti, chi cunti? [Who Do You
Sing, Who Do You Tell] (1983), based on the
tonalities of a melancholy chant conveying a
koiné aimed at realizing a sort of
Mythological landscape in which time
appears almost as a still mystery and life a
sum of invariables. In the satirical collections
(Tirituppiti, catta ‘a lira, 1976; ‘A scola è na
virgogna [School Is a Disgrace], 1977; ‘U
populu [People], 1979) Curcio even uses
scurrilous plebeian language that is
metaphorized in multiple images (his
bestiary is very rich), while it tends, on the
sociological level, to take on a series of