marcin
(Marcin)
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real Basilicata into a hallucinato¬ry
metaphor of any maternal world, of the
place of origins in which all readers can find
gestures, people, phrases and images of their
own birthplace. With full universal validity
and philosophical thoughtfulness Pierro,
evoking his conversion to a dialect steeped
in archaic Latin, confessed: “it was a
question of recovering an absent language,
since it also belonged to my personal past as
well as to the more remote and ancestral
past of my people.” In the dialect of Tursi he
filters a prayer, the word in which what is
finite is linked to the arcanely infinite. And
in Pierro is at work the lesson of St.
Augustine and Kant. A meditative
personality, Pierro considers dialect the
“language of poetry,” a lyrical instrument,
capable of bringing into the light of
consciousness the concluded and perfect