The book: "Sicily is a figurative island" is many things at once: a comedy book, a lucid account of a beloved land, a curious and impertinent travel diary, an instruction manual for assembling and dismantling the myth of "Sicilian-ness". Mario Fillioley knows well that he is faced with a place often told, shrouded in a tradition of its own that - from the cycle of the defeated to television fiction - has accumulated and incorporated an endless series of versions, always on the border between topos and stereotype. And he knows that to narrate that place, in its infinite manifestations, he has only one winning weapon: irony. Avoiding both rhetorical poses and anti-rhetorical ones, Fillioley speaks to the reader as if he were a friend, without tricks and without hypocrisy. He thus succeeds in an apparently impossible task: to say something new about the island that is too large, too complex, the figurative island. To tell, with lightness and loving disillusionment, a different Sicily, not definitive and therefore much more true and credible. The author: Mario Fillioley was born in Syracuse in 1973. He is a literature teacher in a public school, has translated several books from English. He has a personal blog, Aribiceci.com, and a blog on the Post. Various stories and reports of his have been published in IL. One of his texts is part of the anthology "You can't go back", published by Marsilio in 2015.
The book: "Sicily is a figurative island" is many things at once: a comedy book, a lucid account of a beloved land, a curious and impertinent travel diary, an instruction manual for assembling and dismantling the myth of "Sicilian-ness". Mario Fillioley knows well that he is faced with a place often told, shrouded in a tradition of its own that - from the cycle of the defeated to television fiction - has accumulated and incorporated an endless series of versions, always on the border between topos and stereotype. And he knows that to narrate that place, in its infinite manifestations, he has only one winning weapon: irony. Avoiding both rhetorical poses and anti-rhetorical ones, Fillioley speaks to the reader as if he were a friend, without tricks and without hypocrisy. He thus succeeds in an apparently impossible task: to say something new about the island that is too large, too complex, the figurative island. To tell, with lightness and loving disillusionment, a different Sicily, not definitive and therefore much more true and credible. The author: Mario Fillioley was born in Syracuse in 1973. He is a literature teacher in a public school, has translated several books from English. He has a personal blog, Aribiceci.com, and a blog on the Post. Various stories and reports of his have been published in IL. One of his texts is part of the anthology "You can't go back", published by Marsilio in 2015.
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