La Parola è il castello: critica della produzione spuria di Gesualdo Bufalino

This research work focuses on the spurious production (essays, comments, but above all elzevirs) of Gesualdo Bufalino's work. That is, on that part of the Sicilian author's writings that the official criticism is only now beginning to take an interest in.With this kind of approach it became possible to break down the biographical story of the writer from Comiso into the elements of his childhood, youth and old age: determining the seasons of his life, his afflictions and faults, if any. It also allowed us to read his opus of novels and poems with a different attention, offering us cues and insights that have opened up new and unexpected paths of study. By revealing, so to speak, the most sinewy and secret areas of Bufalino's pages, this approach has revealed an author with multiple interests. A man who not only dealt with books, but also with painting, music, photography and cinema, with all the most important forms of communication in the modern world.Therefore, Bufalino's elzevirist experience has become an inexhaustible mine of revelations, confessions and intertextual references, and in doing so, contributing, in a decisive way, to the understanding of the entireCorpusof the works of an author we thought by now canonized, and thus allowing a new and positive critical balance.