Dillortan

The writer Clambagio from Bolzano (alias Claudio Bianchetti), following the success of Ironta. Pazzo per Victor (winner of 12 literary awards and reviewed by Dacia Maraini, Luca Liguori, and Franco Manzoni), releases his seventh novel Dillortan. A volte la violenza paga? (Does violence sometimes pay?).

Dedicated "to all oppressed peoples: past, present, and future," the novel tackles a highly topical issue: that of ethnic and linguistic minorities subjected to processes of forced nationalization and the erasure of their identity.

The story is set in Südtirol / Alto Adige during the 1960s. The references to the tensions between the German- and Ladin-speaking minority and the Italian state are clear. However, the author uses imaginative anagrams and fictional reformulations of historical events, following the principles of that narrative laboratory known as uchronia (alternate history). Dillortan is the anagram of Land Tirol. Italy becomes Esperia. The narrative is "a sabotage of memory, a moral experiment."