The book: "La Sicilia è un'isola per modo di dire" is many things at once: a book of comedy, a clear account of a much-loved land, a curious and cheeky travel diary, a manual for assembling and dismantling the myth of "sicilitudine". Mario Fillioley knows well that he is facing a place that has been told too much, wrapped in its own tradition which - from the cycle of the defeated to television fiction - has accumulated and absorbed an endless series of versions, always on the border between topos and stereotype. He knows that to tell it, that place, in its infinite manifestations, there is only one winning weapon: irony. Avoiding both rhetorical and anti-rhetorical poses, Fillioley speaks to the reader as if he were a friend, without tricks and without hypocrisy. He thus succeeds in an apparently impossible task: to say something new about the island that is too big, too complex, the island so to speak. He tells, with lightness and loving disenchantment, a different Sicily, not definitive and therefore all the more true and credible. The author: Mario Fillioley was born in Syracuse in 1973. He is a literature teacher in a public school, has translated several books from English. He has a personal blog, Aribiceci.com, and a blog on Il Post. Various of his stories and reports have been published in IL. One of his texts is part of the anthology Non si può tornare indietro, published by Marsilio in 2015.
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The book: "La Sicilia è un'isola per modo di dire" is many things at once: a book of comedy, a clear account of a much-loved land, a curious and cheeky travel diary, a manual for assembling and dismantling the myth of "sicilitudine". Mario Fillioley knows well that he is facing a place that has been told too much, wrapped in its own tradition which - from the cycle of the defeated to television fiction - has accumulated and absorbed an endless series of versions, always on the border between topos and stereotype. He knows that to tell it, that place, in its infinite manifestations, there is only one winning weapon: irony. Avoiding both rhetorical and anti-rhetorical poses, Fillioley speaks to the reader as if he were a friend, without tricks and without hypocrisy. He thus succeeds in an apparently impossible task: to say something new about the island that is too big, too complex, the island so to speak. He tells, with lightness and loving disenchantment, a different Sicily, not definitive and therefore all the more true and credible. The author: Mario Fillioley was born in Syracuse in 1973. He is a literature teacher in a public school, has translated several books from English. He has a personal blog, Aribiceci.com, and a blog on Il Post. Various of his stories and reports have been published in IL. One of his texts is part of the anthology Non si può tornare indietro, published by Marsilio in 2015.
