Sardinian Literary Spring
Sardinian Literary Spring is a definition of the whole body of the literature produced in Sardinia from around the 1980s onwards.
History
=About the denomination=
Sardinian Literary Spring, also known as Sardinian Literary Nouvelle Vague,Goffredo Fofi, Sardegna, che Nouvelle vague!, Panorama, novembre 2003 {{cite web |url=http://archivio.panorama.it/home/articolo/idA020001021715 |title=Sardegna, che Nouvelle vague! - Panorama |accessdate=2013-06-10 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140323160617/http://archivio.panorama.it/home/articolo/idA020001021715 |archivedate=2014-03-23 }} is a denomination normally used to describe the literary works written by Sardinians from around the 1980s. It is described as being formed of novels and other written texts (and sometimes also of cinema, theatre and other works of art), which often share stylistic and thematic constants.S. Paulis, La costruzione dell'identità. Per un'analisi antropologica della narrativa in Sardegna fra '800 e '900, Sassari, EdeS, 2006 They form a kind of fiction with features that derive mainly, but not only, from the Sardinian, Italian, and European context and history.George Steiner, One thousand years of solitude: on Salvatore Satta, in G. Steiner, At the New Yorker, New York, New Directions, 2009
The Sardinian Literary Spring is considered to be one of the most remarkable regional literatures in Italian,Carlo Dionisotti, Geografia e storia della letteratura italiana, Torino, Einaudi, 1999Francesco Bruni, L'Italiano nelle regioni, Torino, UTET, 1997 but sometimes also written in one of the island's minority languages (the most prominent of which being the Sardinian language, in addition to the other Romance varieties spoken in Sardinia, namely Corsican, Catalan, and Genoese).F. Toso, La Sardegna che non parla sardo, Cagliari, CUEC, University Press, 2012S. Tola, La letteratura in lingua sarda. Testi, autori, vicende, Cagliari, CUEC, 2006).{{cite book|first=Pierluigi|last=Caria|date=2016-10-03|title=Su romanzu in limba sarda. Unu fenòmenu literàriu cunsideradu in intro de su sistema cumplessu de sa comunicatzione literària in Sardigna|publisher=Università degli studi di Sassari|location=Sassari|language=sc|access-date=2020-02-26|url=http://unisslaurea.uniss.it/424/}}
The definition of 'spring'{{cite web |url=http://hugvis.hi.is/new_perspectives_italian_language_and_culture |title=New perspectives on Italian Language and Culture | Hugvísindastofnun |publisher=Hugvis.hi.is |accessdate=2013-08-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921054237/http://hugvis.hi.is/new_perspectives_italian_language_and_culture |archivedate=2013-09-21 }} or 'nouvelle vague'Sardinian Literary Nouvelle Vague is the most popular: [https://www.google.it/#q=nouvelle+vague+sarda] or plainly 'new Sardinian literature' is due to the new quality, quantity, and international success of many works published by these Sardinian authors,Interview with Marcello Fois (by Stefano Palombari), [http://italie.italieaparis.net/articles/157-marcello-fois L'Italie à Paris, 24 October 2008]. translated in many world languages.E. g. the recent novel by Michela Murgia, Accabadora (Einaudi 2010, winner of the Premio Campiello 2010) is already translated in 30 languages: [https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/accabadora-by-michela-murgia-trans-silvester-mazzarella-6270413.html]
=Initiators, predecessors and followers=
The Sardinian Literary Spring was started, according to a mostly shared canonical opinion,Giulio Angioni,Cartas de logu: scrittori sardi allo specchio, Cagliari, CUEC 2007{{cite web|url=http://www.criticaletteraria.org/2013/05/scrittori-in-ascolto-presentazione-di.html |title=Scrittori in Ascolto - Presentazione di "Snuff o l'arte di morire" |publisher=CriticaLetteraria |date=2001-03-07 |accessdate=2013-08-29}}{{cite web|author=Fabrizio Ottaviani - Ven, 14/09/2007 - 03:09 |url=http://www.ilgiornale.it/news/e-sardegna-difende-propria-nouvelle-vague.html |title=E la Sardegna difende la propria nouvelle vague |language=it |publisher=IlGiornale.it |date=2007-09-14 |accessdate=2013-08-29}} by a trio formed of Giulio Angioni, Sergio Atzeni and Salvatore Mannuzzu, and then continued by authors such as Salvatore Niffoi, Alberto Capitta, Giorgio Todde, Michela Murgia, Flavio Soriga, Milena Agus, Francesco Abate, and many others.
The Sardinian Literary Spring is considered to be also the contemporary result, in the European arena,Birgit Wagner, Sardinien, Insel im Dialog. Texte, Diskurse, Filme, Tübingen, Francke Verlag, 2008 of the works of Sardinian individual prominent figures such as Grazia Deledda, Nobel Prize winner for literature in 1926, Emilio Lussu, Giuseppe Dessì, Gavino Ledda, Salvatore Satta, and others.Giulio Ferroni, Storia della letteratura italiana, Milano, Mondadori, 2006
Sergio Atzeni (1952 - 1995)Sergio Atzeni in Enciclopedia Treccani:[http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/sergio-atzeni/]Sergio Atzeni in Sardegna Digital Library [http://www.sardegnadigitallibrary.it/index.php?xsl=602&v=9&s=17&c=4459&na=1&n=24&c1=Sergio+Atzeni&p=0&f=0] worked for some of the most important Sardinian newspapers. Member of the Italian Communist Party, but later disillusioned with politics, he left Sardinia and travelled across Europe. All of Atzeni's works are set in Sardinia. He used a very original language that fused elegant literary Italian and the "patter" used by the working-class in Cagliari and Sardinia. In some of his novels (e.g. Il quinto passo è l'addio and Bellas mariposas) he also used techniques akin to the magic realism style of many Southern American authors,George Steiner, One thousand years cit. and he has been followed by other Sardinian authors, such as Alberto Capitta, Giorgio Todde, and Salvatore Niffoi, who in 2006, with the novel La vedova scalza (The barefoot widow), won the popular Premio Campiello.
Giulio Angioni[http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giulio-angioni/ Page on Enciclopedia Treccani][http://www.sardegnadigitallibrary.it/index.php?xsl=602&s=17&v=9&c=4459&n=24&c1=Giulio+Angioni%2C Giulio Angioni in Sardegna Digital Library] (born 1939) is a leading Italian anthropologist.Giulio Angioni in [http://www.sardegnacultura.it/documenti/7_81_20071203170129.pdf "La Grande Enciclopedia della Sardegna"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140211051303/http://www.sardegnacultura.it/documenti/7_81_20071203170129.pdf |date=2014-02-11 }} He is also well known as the author of about twenty books of fiction and poetry.Anna M. Amendola, L'isola che sorprende. La narrativa sarda in italiano (1974-2006), Cagliari, CUEC 200, 160-179E. Hall, Greek tragedy and the politics of subjectivity in recent fiction, "Classical Receptions Journal", 1 (1), 23-42, Oxford University Press, 2009 Angioni writes mostly in Italian, but also in Sardinian. He has inaugurated a linguistic style which switches from the standard Italian to the regional (Sardinian) Italian and other linguistic varieties, in an original mixture of his own, but also followed by other Sardinian authors.Cristina Lavinio, Narrare un'isola: lingua e stile di scrittori sardi, Rome, Bulzoni 1991: 151-171 Angioni's best novels are considered to be Le fiamme di Toledo (Flames of Toledo), Assandira, La pelle intera,{{cite web|url=http://www.sardegnadigitallibrary.it/index.php?xsl=626&s=17&v=9&c=4463&id=66465 |title=Sardegna DigitalLibrary - Testi |publisher=Sardegnadigitallibrary.it |date= |accessdate=2013-08-29}}{{cite web|url=http://www.italica.rai.it/scheda.php?scheda=angioni_pelleintera |title=Narrativa - Angioni Giulio: La pelle intera |publisher=Italica |date= |accessdate=2013-08-29}} Doppio cielo (Double sky), L'oro di Fraus.Jean-Baptiste Marongiu, « L'Or sarde et Signé l'assassin : deux romans et un article pour comprendre que les sardes ne sont pas les premiers venus en matière de coups tordus », Libération, 25/09/2003 (The gold of Fraus).Franc Manai, Cosa succede a Fraus? Sardegna e mondo nel racconto di Giulio Angioni, Cagliari, CUEC, 2006
Salvatore Mannuzzu’s (born 1930) most successful novel is Procedura (1988, Einaudi), winner of Italy's Premio Viareggio in 1989. In 2000 the director Antonello Grimaldi has made the film Un delitto impossibile from this novel, which is also considered (with the coeval L'oro di Fraus by Giulio Angioni) the origin of a genre of Sardinian detective stories[http://gaetanolopresti.wordpress.com/2009/12/12/il-noir-in-festival-conferma-che-il-noir-si-addice-agli-scrittori-sardi/ Courmayeur Noir in Festival] (called giallo sardo).Oreste del Buono, L'isola del mistero, "Panorama", 17 July 1988 p. 18Geno Pampaloni, Sardegna calibro 9, "Il giornale", 29.10.1988Sergio Atzeni, L'indagine di Mannuzzu nel torbido di una Sassari/Italia, in "Linea d'ombra", January 1989 with authors such as Marcello Fois{{cite web|url=http://www.vigata.org/altri_autori/fois.shtml |title=Marcello Fois |publisher=Vigata.org |date=2000-03-19 |accessdate=2013-08-29}} and Giorgio Todde, who gave birth to the Literary Festival of Gavoi, L'isola delle storie, with Giulio Angioni, Flavio Soriga, and other authors.{{cite web|url=http://www.regione.sardegna.it/j/v/121?s=199226&v=2&c=1498 |title=Cultura e istruzione - Regione Autonoma della Sardegna |publisher=Regione.sardegna.it |date= |accessdate=2013-08-29}}
Notes and references
Bibliography
- A. M. Amendola, L'isola che sorprende. La narrativa sarda in italiano (1974-2006), Cagliari, CUEC 200, 160-179.
- Giulio Angioni, Cartas de logu: scrittori sardi allo specchio, Cagliari, CUEC, 2007.
- M. Broccia, The Sardinian Literary Spring: An Overview. A New Perspective on Italian Literature, in "Nordicum Mediterraneum", Vol. 9, no. 1 (2014)[http://www.nome.unak.is/nm-marzo-2012/volume-9-no-1-2014/66-interviews-memoirs-and-other-contributions/465-the-sardinian-literary-spring-an-overview-a-new-perspective-on-italian-literature]
- Carlo Dionisotti, Geografia e storia della letteratura italiana, Torino, Einaudi, 1999.
- E. Hall, Greek tragedy and the politics of subjectivity in recent fiction, "Classical Receptions Journal", 1 (1), 23-42, Oxford University Press, 2009.
- H. Klüver, Gebrauchsanweisungen für Sardinien, München, Piper Verlag, 2012.
- C. Lavinio, Narrare un'isola. Lingua e stile di scrittori sardi, Roma, Bulzoni, 1991.
- F. Manai, Cosa succede a Fraus? Sardegna e mondo nel racconto di Giulio Angioni, Cagliari, CUEC, 2006.
- M. Marras, Ecrivains insulaires et auto-représentation, "Europaea", VI, 1-2 (2000), 17-77.
- A. Ottavi, Les romanciers italiens contemporains, Paris, Hachette, 1992, 142-145.
- S. Paulis, La costruzione dell'identità. Per un'analisi antropologica della narrativa in Sardegna fra '800 e '900, Sassari, EdeS, 2006.
- L. Schröder, Sardinienbilder. Kontinuitäten und Innovationen in der sardischen Literatur und Publizistik der Nachkriegszeit, Bern, Peter Lang, 2000.
- George Steiner, One thousand years of solitude: on Salvatore Satta, in G. Steiner, At the New Yorker, New York, New Directions Pub. Corp., 2009, {{ISBN|9780811217040}}
- F. Toso, La Sardegna che non parla sardo, Cagliari, CUEC, University Press, 2012.
- S. Tola, La letteratura in lingua sarda. Testi, autori, vicende, Cagliari, CUEC, 2006.
- B. Wagner, Sardinien, Insel im Dialog. Texte, Diskurse, Filme, Tübingen, Francke Verlag 2008.
See also
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External links
- [https://www.europenowjournal.org/2019/04/04/regional-identity-in-contemporary-sardinian-writing/ Dettori, Giovanni (2019). Regional Identity in Contemporary Sardinian Writing, EuropeNow, Council for European Studies (CES)]
- New Sardinian literature: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xukp7hn5tHw]
- [http://www.italicapress.com/index088.html Italica Press: Atzeni's Biography]
- [http://www.italicapress.com/index087.html Italica Press: Bakunin's Son summary]
- [http://www.sergioatzeni.com/ Atzeni's biography and work] {{in lang|it}}
- Sardinian Nouvelle vague: [http://www.regione.sardegna.it/j/v/491?s=56155&v=2&c=27&t=1]
- Sardegna Digital Library: [http://www.sardegnadigitallibrary.it/index.php?xsl=602&s=17&v=9&c=4459&n=24&c1=]
- About Accabadora in English: [https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/accabadora-by-michela-murgia-trans-silvester-mazzarella-6270413.html]
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