Prethodno priopćenje
https://doi.org/10.15291/sponde.5002
Beyond the Adriatic Mirror. Schiavoni’s Quaderno croato
Rita Nicolì
; Università del Salento
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* Dopisni autor.
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This contribution offers an analysis of Vanni Schi-avoni’s anthology Quaderno croato, a poetry collection by the young writer, highlighting its thematic complexity and stylistic maturity and published in 2020. The book, consisting of twelve poems dedi-cated to twelve places on the Croatian coast, uses the poetics of travel to transform the journey from a simple geographical displacement into an existential crossing and ethical-political meditation, where sensory perception, historical memory, and ethical reflection intertwine. Schiavoni transforms Croatia into a dynamic system of energies and correspond-ences, evoking with rare poetic intensity its islands, cities, and human figures - from the “Kornati, like small errors of the waves”, to Dubrovnik, with its “hundred names in the long sunset”, and Šibenik, a “Venice in filigree”. Schiavoni, a member of the post-industrial Salento generation, addresses in the collection the painful memory of the Yugoslav war and the complex dialogue between personal and col-lective identity, mediated by reflection on history and landscape. The structure of the poems in bilingual pairs (Italian-Croatian) emphasises the tension between roots and otherness. The human figures en-countered fishermen, street vendors, border guards, become epiphanies of otherness and nuclei of meaning, revealing travel as an experience of encounter and self-knowledge. The poet favours a meditative and lyrical language, avoiding ideological and declamatory drifts, and restoring to the poetic text a function of resistance to oblivion and emotional reconstruction. Quaderno croato thus marks the apex of Schiavoni’s projected “Trilogy of the Roots”, repre-senting the point of balance between his personal lin-guistic experimentation and a broader poetic tradi-tion that weaves together lyrical introspection, moral tension and responsibility. The work can therefore be inscribed in the tradition of civil and testimonial poetry, which combines the aesthetic dimension with a profound sense of historical and moral responsibility.
Ključne riječi
odeporic literature, identity, Yugoslav war, historical memory, poetry
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342496
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Datum izdavanja:
22.12.2025.
Posjeta: 253 *