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Deliver Us

by Luigi Meneghello

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Originally published in 1963, and today considered a landmark in twentieth century Italian literature, Luigi Meneghello's Deliver Us is the memoir, not of an extraordinary childhood, but of the very ordinary one the author shared with most of his generation, when Italy was a rural country under the twin authorities of Church and Fascism. His boyhood begins in 1922, the year of Mussolini's March on Rome, and ends when Meneghello, 21, goes up into the hills to join the partisans. Called a romanzo--a story, although not a novel, as that term usually suggests--the book is a genre all of its own that mixes personal and collective memory, amateur ethnography, and reflections on language. Meneghello's sharp insights and narrative skill come together in an original meditation on how words, people, places, and things shape thought itself.  Only loosely chronological, Deliver Us proceeds by themes--childhood games, Fascist symbols, religious precepts, and the rites of poverty, of death, of eros, and of love. Meneghello's ironic musings and profoundly honest recollections make an utterly unsentimental human comedy of that was the whole world to his dawning consciousness.… (more)
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  ScarpaOderzo | Apr 13, 2020 |
Meneghello è un maestro, ha una scrittura stilisticamente notevole, ironica e piacevole, ma questo romanzo non ha catturato la mia immaginazione, ho abbandonato mio malgrado a pag. 110. ( )
  Giangi | Oct 28, 2019 |
Alla fine, fra le avvertenze, c’è una nota analoga al ‘Qualsiasi riferimento a persone o fatti…’ di molti film. In effetti, concorda con il frontespizio, che riporta la dicitura ‘romanzo’, e non ‘ricordi dei miei primi trent’anni’. Non che sia veramente importante: il racconto dell’infanzia e della giovinezza di un ragazzo – nonché di tutto quanto gli gira intorno - tra gli anni del fascismo e la prima maturità ci restituisce uno sguardo divertito e appassionato su un mondo che non esiste più e che facciamo anche fatica a rappresentarci. Eppure era il mondo in cui sono cresciuti i miei genitori, non importa che qui si parli dell’Alto Vicentino, perché molte esperienze e sensazioni si potrebbero riferire tranquillamente a tutto il nord Italia. Il racconto procede prima per brevi schizzi e poi si concentra su alcuni temi fondamentali della vita di una piccola comunità: le compagnie, il sesso, la religione ed infine, con lo scorrere del racconto delle generazioni che hanno preceduto l’autore, il progresso che trasforma il borgo agricolo fino a renderlo irriconoscibile. Oltre alla materia e all’abile capacità di alternare i registri tra drammatico e comico – si ride, e parecchio, leggendo questo libro – il punto di forza del romanzo è la lingua. Il dialetto – imparato dalla vita – e l’italiano –imparato a scuola – si compenetrano dando alla narrazione un’intonazione particolare che, forse, è il vero motore del libro. Certo, per i non veneti non sempre è facile comprendere i dettagli, specie nella prima parte frammentata e più ricca di termini dialettali (puri o italianizzati): vengono in aiuto le note poste a fine volume e poi è una questione di orecchio, quando si entra in sintonia con il ritmo dello scritto, l’uso del glossario risulta addirittura superfluo. Un po’ di pazienza, insomma, necessaria per poter godere di un romanzo italiano bello quanto dimenticato. ( )
  catcarlo | Oct 8, 2014 |
Unico, forse perfetto. ( )
  Matteocalosi | Aug 19, 2014 |
Uno dei miei favoriti di ogni tempo. Dopo aver letto e strariletto questo libro ho dovuto divorare tutto cio' che Meneghello ha scritto. ( )
  Wordcrasher | Oct 8, 2008 |
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Originally published in 1963, and today considered a landmark in twentieth century Italian literature, Luigi Meneghello's Deliver Us is the memoir, not of an extraordinary childhood, but of the very ordinary one the author shared with most of his generation, when Italy was a rural country under the twin authorities of Church and Fascism. His boyhood begins in 1922, the year of Mussolini's March on Rome, and ends when Meneghello, 21, goes up into the hills to join the partisans. Called a romanzo--a story, although not a novel, as that term usually suggests--the book is a genre all of its own that mixes personal and collective memory, amateur ethnography, and reflections on language. Meneghello's sharp insights and narrative skill come together in an original meditation on how words, people, places, and things shape thought itself.  Only loosely chronological, Deliver Us proceeds by themes--childhood games, Fascist symbols, religious precepts, and the rites of poverty, of death, of eros, and of love. Meneghello's ironic musings and profoundly honest recollections make an utterly unsentimental human comedy of that was the whole world to his dawning consciousness.

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