| Summary: | Some of Corrado Alvaro's works, especially those regarding Calabria, are often
evaluated not only for their literary value, but also for their documentary value.
The article summarizes some points of the post-modern debate on ethnographic writing and moves in that area of compatibility which anthropologists and literary critics converse.
The different contrasts that seem to constantly characterize Alvaro's
works - country/world, metahistory/history, magical realism/realism - once
composed and read in their entirety, reveal a specific structure which is
implied in most of his literature. The landscape, in particular, is the element
that makes everything coherent, and allows us to understand some specific dynamics of Alvaro's memory.
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