Antonio Cossu, uno scrittore olivettiano in Sardegna
Duilio Caocci
2022-01-01
Abstract
Within the so-called Olivettian literature, a minimal and yet important portion of industrial literature, Antonio Cossu should occupy a prominent position. If one agrees on a broad definition, that is, that with the adjective derived from the great industrialist's surname one can define a wide and heterogeneous group of literary products inspired by Adriano Olivetti's ideas, then the Sardinian writer's entire output fully falls within this highly populated field. Even when Antonio Cossu is not talking about factories at all. On the contrary, precisely because he reflects on the future of the island without industry, during a historical phase in which, after the fruitful debate on the reasons for autonomy, the implementation of Article 13 of the Statute, the one that states that the State with the help of the Region arranges an organic plan to foster the economic and social rebirth of the Island, is being planned. Among Cossu's four novels – I figli di Pietro Paolo, Il riscatto, Mannigos de memoria, Il sogno svanito - Sardinia evolved in an industrial sense appears only in Il sogno svanito, because the writer when disposed to make literature is not so much interested in work on the assembly line, but in issues that concern his land more directly: the modernization of economic processes in the agro-pastoral field in relation to the improvement of the quality of life of the communities, the refinement of power relations between decision-making centers and peripheries. These were all nodes that Cossu had learned to consider carefully from his readings of French personalist philosophers first and Adriano Olivetti later.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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