TriQuarterly, June 22nd, 2003
[NOTE: The following essay was delivered as a talk at a conference on "La provincia" which took place at the University of Bergamo, December 2001. It has been translated from the Italian by Susan Stewart] I would like to take this occasion to revisit and further develop certain reflections on the idea of provinciality, which I presented for the first time at the end of my book Forests: The Shadow of Civilization some ten years ago. (1) It is a fundamental theme, for I believe that Western culture owes considerably more to its provinces than it does to its cities. If I had enough time and adeq...
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