Kwartett
(L-Awturi, 1965, 72pp., qoxra: dettal minn “Il-Mewt ta’ Dragut” ta’ Giuseppe Calì)
 |
| Victor Fenech juri ftuħ u xi drabi wkoll linja simbolika. Fit-teknika tal-preżentazzjoni huwa jesperimenta b’forom ġodda fil-Malti u kultant kapriċċużi ħafna… L-argumenti ta’ Fenech huma l-imħabba lejn niesu mejtin (dik fuq nanntu b’ritmu liriku li għandu ħafna mill-poeta favorit tiegħu, Rużar Briffa), il-poeta bħala bniedem li joħloq, l-element patrijottiku u, fuq kollox, il-problema tal-ħajja u l-inkwiet ta’ żminijietna. |
Ġużé Aquilina
“Erba’ Poeti Ġodda” (daħla tal-ktieb)
|
| The real poet is found in short concentrated pieces…in which a marriage of mood, diction and rhythm express Fenech’s disgust with the hollowness or senselessness of modern civilisation. |
Paul Xuereb
“Poetry of Great Promise”
Sunday Times of Malta, 5.6.1966
|
| VF is the bold experimenter with prosody, and seems to excel most in poems dealing uncompromisingly with modern society, like “Huma u l-Bqija” which combines both traditional and ‘new wave’ material. |
“New Trend”
Maltese Commentary, The Bulletin, 8.6.1966
|
| VF hu poeta ħelu, poeta issa melodjuż u mlewwen u issa bejn ħarira ermetiku u enimmatiku, poeta – fi kliem il-Professur Aquilina – “teknikament kuraġġuż għax jesperimenta b'versi ta’ diversi kejl”, għalkemm l-argumenti intellettwali lanqas ma jbeżżgħuh. |
Karmenu Vassallo
It-Torċa, 12.6.1966
|
|
| << Lura |
|