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This chapter focuses on an unconventional novel, Erri De Luca's Montedidio (God's Mountain), which is the journal of an adolescent living and working as a carpenter's apprentice in one of Naples's poorest neighborhoods. De Luca, who taught himself Hebrew in order to translate the book of Ruth, Ecclesiastes, and several other Old Testament books into Italian, borrows the voice of a young scribe who writes his own coming-of-age story in the foreign idiom he has learned in school. To express himself in this acquired language means, for the narrator and protagonist of this apocryphal contemporary tale, to “emigrate” from his mother tongue and embark on a symbolic journey that requires both a transformation of his body and a transfiguration of his soul.
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