marcin
(Marcin)
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very personal and painful journey into the
depths of his spirit, which identifies
completely with his land of Ceglie, named
after the ancient Messapian people; while
still a part of Salento it is, with its Samnitic
tones, a linguistic island. With this dialect
Gatti has built his expressive world,
instinctively opposing this bitter and stony
South, its toil and beauty, to the inexorable
advancing of industrial society.
Nevertheless, rather than turning it into a
reactionary and obscurantist motif, falling
into the incontaminated-reality trap, the
author has tried to keep alive the alternative
reason for such a peremptory reality: namely
to give voice, through a descent to hell, to
the unconscious, the unutterable, the
unpredictable, to forms still unformed. Far
from indulging in nostalgia or cult of the
past, Gatti’s poetry proposes to signify,