La fabbricante di isole. Viaggio dentro l’immaginario del Sud

What is the South – a vision, pure geography or a collection of clichés? Everything in the South is an island, even the mountains, which never face the sea: an archipelago made up of theatre and ruins, languages, roads and people. This is ‘Little Italy’, a collage of villages and churches, sacred and remote, besieged by globalisation. A tapestry of memories, alphabets and landscapes, a gateway to the underworld and a remote paradise. A forsaken land and a haven, yet also a trap where ancient mistakes are repeated, whilst the present crumbles. From Naples to Palermo, from Syracuse to Galatina, from Soleto to Sibari, what remains of Magna Graecia, suspended between the virtual present and its immense, fragmentary past?