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Article: Il dispatrio.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- June 22, 1994
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At first glance, as the memoirs of an expatriate professor, Il dispatrio seems to reflect the life of many members of the teaching profession, who have crossed the Atlantic after completing their education in Italy and are now permanently established in American institutions. The only similarity with the story of Luigi Meneghello's life, however, ends here, with the dispatrio, the exit from Italy, in 1949, of a young student, the recipient of a British Council Fellowship to study in London. Welcomed at Victoria Station by two pretty upper-middle-class young ladies sent by the Council, Meneghello starts a cozy, studious life, apparently without any of the traumas many of his ...