“Here you can see Italy really well. What you have discovered is that Italy is an extension of Palermo using identical resources. You have discovered, he says, that Palermo is Italy.”
A country that defies comprehension – this is how Italy appears today. Giorgio Vasta rises to the challenge, borrowing from geology the tricky technique of core sampling – extracting a specimen from the earth and studying it to extend the results across a broader spectrum.
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Giorgio Vasta
Giorgio Vasta is a writer. He lives and works in Turin. He is the author of the novel The Material Time (2008, forthcoming in France, Germany, Holland, Spain, the United States and the UK), selected in the Premio Strega 2009 and finalist at the Premio Dessì, Premio Berto and Premio Dedalus.