Italy is mine

... and it owes me a living

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Vera da Pozzo, an Italian expat in Paris.

From the Island of the Sun to the Isle of France.

My pseudonym Vera da Pozzo is a pun alluding to what I care about most : truth and loyalty, depth and insight. In my mother tongue, the syntagma "vera da pozzo" means a puteal, but it could be a female name followed by a family name. Water is indispensable for living, and we need to keep it pure and unpolluted; it is the same for truth.
I write in English because I love this language since my childhood and also because English allows me to have a more detached view on both Italy and France. The title of my personal website and blog is a paraphrasis of the verse "England is mine and it owes me a living", from Morrissey's song "Still Ill", released in The Smiths debut album "The Smiths" on 20th February 1984. As Italy had nothing to offer to young people like me, I decided to throw my arms around Paris, as Oscar Wilde did, and I am still here. Like francophone actor Lino Ventura, I am and I will always be Italian.

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3 hours ago1 min read

To be an Italian expat is a Kafkaesque Situation

Italy is mine and it owes me a living... and a passport. To be an Italian expat is not just painful in itself, but it implies an additional burden and an extra charge in terms of bureaucracy which lead to every kind of Kafkaesque situations. In fact, as an expat, I belong to Nowhere. Vera da Pozzo 17th August 2026 (C) Vera da Pozzo (C) Italy is Mine (C) Italy is Mine and It owes Me a Living Below, Relativity (1953), litograph print by Maurits Cornelis Escher. #Italy #expat #I

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Italy is mine

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To be an Italian expat is a Kafkaesque Situation

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