L’epopea della Sardegna in Millant’anni di Giulio Angioni
Journal: Italian Studies in Southern Africa/Studi d’Italianistica nell’Africa Australe
Year: 2010

The article gives a textual analysis of Giulio Angioni’s "Millant’anni" (2002) which sees this novel as an epic tale of the Sardinian people, focused on the question of collective identity as the ever-varying product of historical change. The article identifies the novel’s most innovative feature as its “historical minimalism”, that is, Angioni’s interest in representing the minimal and basic levels of social life. This is evident not so much in the fact that the novel’s protagonists belong to t