Sandro Penna
“Life… is to remember a sad awakening in a train at dawn.” The book is a small essay, coming from a degree thesis. The style is therefore that of a scientific work, where the narration is often interspersed with quotations, engraved by other authors and, precisely, accurate reproposition of poetic verses by Sandro Penna. A literary criticism beyond the usual stakes, in which the author offers us his litmus test to understand Penna as an...