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Article: From language to dialect: de Calvianis quidam.(Italian Literature Today)
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- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- March 22, 1997
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THE OCCUPATION
Other than me: the air is wasted and the tight-beaked bite of the escaping blackbird. I notice you large and gaunt from the cloud of my forebodings. You dip fingers where the inertia is most hairy, turned over in games of vast puddles, a sister enflamed one step after another, a nurse during a long illness.
With the lines from 1961 cited above, my personal literary adventure began. And while the critics were quick to identify the parameters of poetic culture that my work would relate to for years to come, I was not yet fully aware of them: European symbolism, on the one hand, of the French variety, its dispositio being to reveal the ...