Licio Damiani presents his latest book “Archipelago of Memory”

Event date: May 08, 2008
Event location: Trieste

Licio Damiani presents his latest book “Arcipelago della memoria” in Trieste, Thursday 8 May 2008 at 17.30:8 p.m., at the Società Triestina della Vela ” Pontile Istria XNUMX. The meeting is organized by the Multimedia Documentation Center of Julian, Istrian, Rijeka and Dalmatian culture. The book and the author will be introduced by Prof. Maria Carminati, literary critic, editor of the La Nuova Base Editrice series and Piero Magnabosco, writer.
This new edition of Licio Damiani's stories, already published in the Seventies, is enriched by two unpublished texts, which add to the previous ones, providing a reason for interest and attention.
The author, born in 1935 in Lussinpiccolo, lives in Udine. A professional journalist and critic, he is a member of AICA, the International Association of Art Critics. He is the author of two volumes on twentieth-century art in Friuli, as well as numerous monographs and essays on painters, sculptors, and architects. Friuli-Venezia Giulia. The Art of the Twentieth Century was published in 2001. He has published books of fiction, poetry, and travel. Formerly head of service at RAI, he collaborates with newspapers and magazines and has made cinematographic and television documentaries.
Carlo Sgorlon, in the preface to the volume, underlines: “Like that of all true Mediterranean writers, Damiani's nature is a bit pagan, and means warm and voluptuous adhesion to the beauty of the world. But the happiness of his page is also notable because it has the perspective thickness created by melancholy, by moments of tiredness and discouragement, by the dissolution of feelings in a kind of reverie and dreamy monologue. For example, the sea in him is not only a place that makes the joy of existence stronger: it is also something boundless that dissolves thoughts and gives rise to the desire to go far away, when you see the fishing boats leave and the colored sails parade on the horizon”.
History and memory are the two clear lines along which Damiani's narration develops, accompanied by a widespread sense of nostalgia that hovers around all the stories: a sweet, calm nostalgia, devoid of any feeling of vindication for his lost places: not only the city and the island of Lussino, but the entire archipelago of the Absirtides, the small and very small islands that together with Cherso and Lussino form a seascape of dazzling beauty, of a splendor that seems to come to life again on every page of these stories, where the word is charged with an intense passion for this beloved world that is so strongly rooted in the author's soul.