Bestias | Federigo Tozzi | book new | sale

Federigo Tozzi

Barataria : Bárbaros | 2010

122 | 2h 52

spanish | softcover | new | sale

20cm x 16cm | 210gr

Beasts, by Federigo Tozzi, is a set of fragments that apparently have only one thing in common; in all of them an animal appears, casually or secondarily. The fragments that open and close the book are characterized by the presence of the same bird that has a symbolic value: the lark, the bird of harmony, of the agreement between men and nature. The first fragment describes the lark's difficulty in adapting to the world dominated by man; in the last, the man calls the lark to take his soul. The whole could be defined as a novel of the city of Siena and the fields of Tuscany, with its streets and squares, and the men, animals and objects that populate it. In Tozzi there is a respect and attraction for nature, both urban and rural, even in its cruelest aspects, and a recognition that is strangely modern due to its ecological sense: that of belonging to that natural community that attracts him as much as it repels him. It was the critic Giacomo Debenedetti who recognized in Tozzi an undeniable narrative will, which in reality "forced the fragment to become the stone and brick of a building": the organic construction of a text made of tesserae that form a mosaic, in line with other authors of his time, such as Luigi Pirandello or Italo Svevo, all of them involved in this "time of building."