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Fulvio Tomizza: Writing the Trauma of Exile

Fulvio Tomizza: Writing the Trauma of Exile

Deganutti, Marianna

Hardcover

Series: Italian Perspectives, Book 38

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1781885931
ISBN13: 9781781885932
Publisher: Legenda
Published: Sep 28 2018
Pages: 194
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

In what language is it possible to elaborate the trauma of exile? By dealing with the diaspora from Istria, a borderland located at the intersection of the Italian and the Croato-Slovene civilizations, Fulvio Tomizza (1935-1999), an outstanding and yet still relatively unknown author of the Italian Novecento, questioned exile in depth. This exile, which took place after the post-war redefinition of the Italo-Yugoslav border, corresponds to a trauma, that can be better analysed through the language used by Tomizza, in particular through his multilingualism and self-translation. In this work, Deganutti suggests that only the Italian language the author chooses to write his novels - which corresponds both to a native and a translated tongue - allows him to cope with the trauma of exile, or at least with what could be told about it.

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