Tipos y lugares de la enfermedad en la obra de Giuseppe Bonaviri

Abstract

The theme of illness in the history of literature in general and in Italian literature, in particular, goes back a long time because it is rooted in the deepest part of the human existence from birth to death, and in many cases it conditions the life-course of a writer, as it happened with Giuseppe Bonaviri, who was born in  Mineo in 1924 and died in Frosinone in 2009. He was a Sicilian writer who loved his country, his family and his friends and a person of fragile physical constitution. Perhaps for this reason, and because of his profession as a medical doctor, illness always accompanied him in life and in literature, and his poetic language was abundantly nourished by the materials that both illness and medicine offered him.