«Spatriato di là, oltre lo Scilla»: onomastica in Codice siciliano di Stefano D’Arrigo

Abstract

Besides being a narrator, Stefano D’Arrigo was, first and foremost, a poet. Compared to the immense, lush, imaginative and deforming multitude of per­ sonal narnes that the narrator uses in Horcynus Orca, the narnes in Codice Siciliano comprise mythical and religious elements on the one hand, and intellectual and human biography on the other; the onomatology in Codice Siciliano therefore represents the existential journey of the poet and the topographical map of his being Sicilian, revealing a soul that looks toward transcendence, recovering the immanence of the child, while D’Arrigo from Messina «expatriated somewhere there, over the scilla» (transl. by the author).