marcin
(Marcin)
#1
overdoing it. It has been chorally written
that he was able to untangle himself from
the knotted skein of Verismo and was able to
free himself from the limitations of the local
sketch, thanks to that very innate grace that
prompted him to measure theatrical effects
without distorting into caricatures or
“figurines” certain portraits smelling of
times past, but also capable of gazing beyond
the curtain of the present. His works should
be examined as they evolved, in order to
understand that he was gradually able to
find adequate means to express content and
subject matter fashionable at the time, but
without turning them into stereotypes or
depriving them of that subjective dimension
capable of breathing life into a description, a
sentiment, an emotion. The subject matter of
his verse is that of the southern repertory of
the time, yet the obvious and the trite have