“… I see it like this King of scrub. And his straightforward and immediate style, very often deliberately naive even more than naive, the very taste of the unrelated proverb and the ribobolo, I take him for a carillon that suddenly starts playing in the silence and darkness of a villa in the countryside, closed for years, and revisited on a surprising summer night.
His contraption, Modugno he reveals it from the beginning, immediately inviting the reader to come to terms with what we have defined invention in invention, and with the basic irony that authorizes one to consider literature a game, a happy death.
But it is not, even in this case, the usual manuscript found in the chest.
Rather than a legacy, equal to many other things, recorded by a notary who has all the characteristics of the characters who will follow him, and with the style that will follow.
I mean that everything belongs at the same time, to the same illuminated Etruscan "cave"
(or Maremma) ... "
From the preface by Alberto Bevilacqua
DATA SHEET:
The King of Macchia
Pages | 142 |
Author | Bruno Modugno |
ISBNs | 9788898310388 |
Year | 2015 |