marcin
(Marcin)
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“neodialect” Tusiani, namely a writer who
uses dialect both as an alternative keyboard
for concurrent and stratified experiences and
as witness to an existential estrangement
redressed by now only by the myth of a
vanished age: the town, the mountain, the
convent, the roads, the ancient crafts, the
minor and minimal figures of the ancestral
“village” are the maternal counterpart of a
life which decided to accept the challenge of
a world radically different, the exact future
of that past.
Criticism: there is a large bibliography on
his multiform production. Besides L.
Petracco Sovran’s monograph, Joseph Tusiani
poeta e traduttore [Joseph Tusiani Poet and
Translator], Perugia: Sigla Tre, 1984, two
miscellaneous studies should be pointed out:
Omaggio a Joseph Tusiani, edited by G.