Salvare l’insalvabile. La poesia di Nino de Vita fra traduzionee autotraduzione

To save the unsavable. The poetry of Nino De Vita: Translation and Self-Translation – The article reflects upon the argument of translation and self-translation referring to the Sicilian poet Nino De Vita, who translates his own texts from the Marsala dialect into Italian. Moreover, the article aims to compare two translation solutions of De Vita’s texts, wherein besides respecting the sense of otherness and exoticism of the original version, one of the most distinctive traits of the Sicilian dialect emerges: the vowel sound ‘u’.