L'Armata Dei Fiumi Perduti

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In Friuli, durante l’ultima guerra, si insedia un’armata cosacca proveniente dalla Russia: uomini, donne, vecchi e bambini ai quali le autorità tedesche hanno promesso una patria. Questo fatto storico diventa nella narrazione di Sgorlon la tragica odissea di un popolo predestinato allo sterminio. Stretti in un lembo di terra, i cosacchi invasori e i friulani invasi sono ugualmente vittime di una diversa, ma speculare, oppressione. Tuttavia, un raggio di speranza è portato dall’indimenticabile Marta, con il suo immenso bisogno d’amore e con la sua tenace convinzione che nel mondo ci sia un’armonia segreta capace di dare un senso all’esistenza.

Carlo Sgorlon was born in 1930 in Cassacco, a tiny village near Udine, capital of Friuli, a region in northeastern Italy near the Austrian and Yugoslav borders. He spent much of his childhood in the countryside, where he attended primary school only rarely but came into daily contact with Friulian peasant life. The influence of his grandfather, a retired schoolmaster with a strong literary bent, and his grandmother, a practicing midwife steeped in local folklore, formed the basis of his love of literature and his reverence for ancient peasant traditions.
He has written a number of novels in the dialect of Friuli, as well as twelve novels and numerous short stories in Italian. His fiction has been translated into French, Spanish, Finnish, German and certain Slavic languages. His literary scholarship, aside from translations from the German, includes two major critical works, one on Kafka and the other on Elsa Morante.