Voci da casa Pascoli

Synopsis of Voci da casa Pascoli

This book is not a biography of Giovanni Pascoli. It is a novel that investigates the greatness of the poet through the events of a life, his own, which was as normal as could be, despite the tragedy of his father's murder. His story is that of a giant malgré lui. A man who did not seek poetry, but who was sought and found by poetry, to which he had to bow almost reluctantly. A man who, when he was a professor, was ashamed of being a poet and who, when he was a poet, was ashamed of being a professor. A man fully immersed in the life of the Italian province of the late nineteenth century. The novel is a feast of confetti, in each of which a fragment of the life of Giovanni or his brothers or his sisters or his friends or his enemies is depicted; a polyphonic choir in which every voice meets or clashes with that of the poet; a fresco in which the side figures assume the same importance as the central one.