Published 2018-12-03
Abstract
Carlo Francavilla, an active political intellectual in the 60s and 70s, expresses his affection and respect for the people of the ‘Mezzogiorno’ in both its poetry and ts novel in an important period of the history of the First Republic.
Through Osman’s suicide (short poems rich in metaphors) he tackles the theme of the impotence of mere words to free a brutalized people: the protagonist’s name (Osman) clearly represents the frustration of a disappointed intellectual.