Giuliano Scabia, la scrittura come religione

Abstract

Giuliano Scabia’s work is imbued with a deep religiousness that manifests itself in many ways and in different dimensions. In the author’s relationship to writing, which he experiences as a daily practise, “more important than prayer for a monk”; in the idea of theatre as a celebration, as a sacred representation, that aims to involve an entire community (or to transform those who participate in the dramaturgical event into a community); in the scattered discussions with a theological flavour among its characters; in the not merely jocular practise of distributing “holy cards”, introduced not by chance with The Devil and his Angel; in the long friendship with the dedicatee of the Song of the monk Silvanus; in the composition of the “operine,” published every year with liturgical regularity. Spirituality and political awareness converge in the tendency to make of his work an organic whole, that encompasses theatre, fiction, reflection, and poetry.