Antonio Dal Masetto: Literature and Migratory Duel

Abstract

Literature had a prominent role in coping with the migratory process that Antonio Dal Masetto, along with his family, began to face a few years after the end of World War II. Starting from a series of interviews with the author and addressing some passages of his work in an autobiographical key, we try to make visible, on one hand, how the practice of reading helped him face the first stages of the migratory experience and, on the other, how writing allowed him to make a gradual return to his homeland. During this return, the author manages to assume his two-faced identity condition and, in turn, become the constructor and transmitter of his family’s memory.