Per tre sorelle omozigote

This essay proposes a reading of Il lato oscuro di Nane Oca that attempts to reflect on the interactive relationship between poetic word, visual image and sound. The narrative structure of the novel is in fact related to an ancient power of the art, as well as to share the experience in a community and admit the imagination in reality. In that sense, words, images and music constitute a unique medium that actually calls to mind the theatre.

Dialogo in pubblico con Giuliano Scabia

The dialogue between Giuliano Scabia and Silvana Tamiozzo starts from the latest novel of the narrative quadrilogy, Il lato oscuro di Nane Oca, and the anthology Una signora impressionante, both released in 2019. Training and first readings, poetry, theatre and, of course, the language, true protagonist of Scabia’s stories, are the subject of this special meeting with the author which concluded the conference.

Rapsodia critica per Nane Oca e il suo autore

In the cycle of novels of Nane Oca, popular culture, folklore, visionary imagination and, at the same time, civic engagement are put together. This paper focuses on different features of the work and the author’s style, retracing the steps of a critical interest that dates back to the middle 1980s.

Del narratore e di altre figure nel ciclo di Nane Oca

The reading of the four novels that constitute the cycle of Nane Oca (1992-2019) allows to understand the fusion of story and tale realised by Giuliano Scabia: the fabulous adventures of the main character, Giovanni, alternate with the iteration of the opening scene where (through the character of Guido il Puliero) the process of narration starts. Listeners (and, in perspective, readers) join the narrator and gradually become collective authors, in the tradition of the folk storytelling.

Note linguistiche sul ciclo di Nane Oca

The essay focuses on the language of Nane Oca’s cycle of novels, studied in its evolution from the first book to the very recent Lato oscuro. Mainly, three aspects are taken into account: 1) literary entries; 2) syntactic patterns; 3) lexical compounds. The analysis of each aspect tries to show how in the language of Nane Oca forms derived from the literary tradition (used to give a characteristic epic tone to the work) are originally combined with completely new solutions. As the literary component decreases, the presence of the dialect, which Scabia uses more openly, becomes stronger over time.

I fili del racconto

In the four novels of Nane Oca, Giuliano Scabia reflects on the archetypes that inhabit the deeper layers of the human culture and of his imagination. These images and patterns, such forest, love, adventure, immortality, logos, just to name a few, can be found in the narrative tetralogy as recurring motifs and themes, crafted into the stories of Pavano Antico; these universal images, then, turn out to be “parole cardinali” (‘keywords’), through which it is possible to explore and understand the literary text.

«Una minestra riscaldata»? Il gioco della ricorsività nel ciclo di Nane Oca di Giuliano Scabia

References to proverbs and popular sayings occur over and over in Giuliano Scabia’s Nane Oca tetralogy, and several warn against repetitions and things which go on for too long. These passages provide an opportunity to analyse how Giuliano Scabia employs recursive patterns in his work, both inside the same novel and between different novels: a reasoned and structured use, sustained by the awareness that repetition plays a crucial role in aesthetic experience, which, for its part, is rooted in children’s games.