Tratti della narrazione e dello stile nell’opera di Tiziano Terzani

Abstract

The article analyses some stylistic and narrative aspects of Tiziano Terzani’s writing. In general, his narrative style is characterised by a fluid union of different text-types such as the historical and social essay, the journalistic reportage and the travel journal. This union creates great documentary works and travel books which find an exemplary place in their own literary tradition, dealing with various physical and symbolic aspects of travelling. Noticing different moments of development in Terzani’s style along his career, I tried to establish some parallelisms between his life experience as regards his motivation for writing, the way he looks at reality and his personal awareness as humanbeing.