Commento critico diMaria Cristina Mauceri
Danilo, transplanted in Australia, has written or produced these stories, set in Italy, but many of them are also set in Australia. Schizophrenia migrantis the typical existential situation of a person who migrated and now lives between two countries. Some of Danilo’ s stories depict the situation that Sayad, an Algerian sociologist, called the double absence. This means that the migrant, with his mind and his heart permanently elsewhere, fails to live in the new country, and in the old country too. I return to Danilo’ s stories. But Danilo is not praising life in the ‘ provincia italiana’. On the contrary, this is defined as “extremely boring”. He criticises those who keep comparing what they have left and what they find in the new country, because this is one of the ways one isolates oneself. So migration can be seen as a positive, as the start of a new life which keeps us alive. For Danilo, migration meant his development and maturation as a writer.
Danilo, transplanted in Australia, has written or produced these stories, set in Italy, but many of them are also set in Australia. Schizophrenia migrantis the typical existential situation of a person who migrated and now lives between two countries. Some of Danilo’ s stories depict the situation that Sayad, an Algerian sociologist, called the double absence. This means that the migrant, with his mind and his heart permanently elsewhere, fails to live in the new country, and in the old country too. I return to Danilo’ s stories. But Danilo is not praising life in the ‘ provincia italiana’. On the contrary, this is defined as “extremely boring”. He criticises those who keep comparing what they have left and what they find in the new country, because this is one of the ways one isolates oneself. So migration can be seen as a positive, as the start of a new life which keeps us alive. For Danilo, migration meant his development and maturation as a writer.
