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*Murtoriu* is the stage adaptation of Marc Biancarelli’s novel of the same name.
It is a complex and rich work that draws its foundations from our region.
The vision presented is not black-and-white; it is both uncompromising and compassionate. It sketches out the contours of who we are, and what Corsica is at the dawn of the 21st century.
It is a work that is viscerally Corsican, yet it also transcends particularities to touch upon the universal.
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Murtoriu depicts the demise of a world, of an ancient Corsica brought to its knees by the war of 1914. Although steeped in violence, death and bitterness, Murtoriu is also part of a process of reflection. A dynamic of an island that never quite dies, trapped in its excesses and contradictions, from which the hero and narrator attempts to escape. An emblematic work in Marc Biancarelli’s oeuvre, Murtoriu follows in the footsteps of Marc-Antoine, a bookseller and writer whose love life is a fiasco; he lives as a recluse in a hamlet in the Corsican mountains, from where he witnesses the plundering of a coastline subjected to every form of degradation.
Born of an island and the language spoken there, *Murtoriu* summons the forces of subversion in a flamboyant, inspired and painful text.