“El trabajo me pone alas”. Writings in homage to Rosa Maria Grillo

Publisher: Department of Arts and Humanities. University of Salerno (DipSum)

Series: Miscellaneous

Pages: 1064

Language: Italian, spanish

NBN:  http://nbn.depositolegale.it/urn:nbn:it:unina-29185

Abstract: «El trabajo me engolosina. El trabajo me pone alas. A otros embriaga el vino; a mí el exceso de trabajo». These are words that José Martí, the apostle of the Cuban homeland, the father of Nuestra América, noted down in his notebook in 1881, as an expression of his social humanitarianism, of fervent socialist sentiments, aimed at the claims and hopes of the working people, the numerous and needy people of his America mestiza. Such words seemed to us a privileged vehicle for recalling, from the very title of this volume, one of the essential figures of the human, vital, existential disposition, as well as of the intellectual commitment, of Rosa Maria Grillo, an admirable example of industriousness, a industrious vitality, exercised, just as in Martí, as the vehicle of a vital humanism. This volume, produced thanks to the affectionate participation of more than seventy scholars, was inspired by the desire to offer a tribute to the indefatigable worker, esteemed lecturer and scholar, teacher, colleague and friend, on the occasion of a significant anniversary, that of her retirement, an important symbolic goal – certainly not the conclusive goal – of a fruitful career accomplished in the field of contemporary Hispanism.