Anatomy Of A Prayer Shawl

The man inside the acrostic

"A fabric of other texts" is was the first definition (stolen) I has occurred to the reading of Acrosintagmi Vittorio Dotti: compositions enveloped in their vertical movement, a literary fragments of others.

Vocation postmodern, one that moves our author to limit the parasitic texts that feed on other texts? Metaliterature evocations: the creation stems from a other text, the words come from other words in a refurbished library of Babel where it all breaks down in verbum , in a reference to a constant reference ghostly, elusive.

Or maybe it's quell'intertestualit à (exhibited in this case) that some is matrix of each literary experience, which always winds through the voices of others: no monad is possible in art, is a continuum of echoes, reminders, answers polyphonic orchestration bachtiniana ancestry.

The authors start from a line of others, sometimes their own, composing poetic "phrases" harnessing (or test) its inspiration: the verse must be intertwined, cling to verses of others, that function as a sort of time-driven but also as Montalian path traced by which the author can not ò deflect.

is the desire to test with a difficulty à additional? The idea is not new: the 'Oulipo French is exercised in the practice of forms Literary restricted, or is a way to defend themselves, to "contain" its own expression that has to deal with letters to others who hold on? Perhaps Dotti does not trust freedom à could imbue creative and bring it to show their nudity à ?

Actually à , if we analyze the content of the compositions, got into a plausible portrait of the author: preclude an individual who is the fullness of life ('needs by rejecting even lawful and purging), a fugitive existence, unable to close its eyes to the squalor of a progressive mean real who courageously denounced the cowardly acquiescence of the mass, but being wary of love, need tinsel, false consolation of which can exceed the limit only because of the mask dell'insincerit à . The reader can then seems voyeuristic enjoy the nakedness of the author - but how many peel cover and defend us against us by the exhibition of ourselves true? The Acrosintagmi of Vittorio Dotti, after all, seem precious fabrics veils: embroidery wise and reassuring transparency.

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