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Paesaggio Scotellaro. Materiali per "Cantilena" (e per la prima Rosselli)
2023
The article starts from the intellectual friendship between Rocco Scotellaro and Amelia Rosselli, then proceeds to focus on the early poems by Rosselli (specifically Cantilena. Poesie per Rocco Scotellaro). Rosselli's short poetic text, her Italian debut in 1953, displays the mourning for Scotellaro's early death and portrays a contradictory absence/presence of her friend into the landscape of Basilicata. In our contribution a theme-based analysis is offered. Through close reading, we investigate on Rosselli's sources (Campana, Jung), both identifying cross-references to Scotellaro's poems and proses and reading Cantilena in continuity with her poetic texts up to Diario ottuso.
Autenticità
2019
The article intends to synthetically reconstruct a line of development of the Italian narrative contemporary, from the nineties onwards, based on the concept of authenticity, vast and rich in applications in the most disparate fields (juridical, philosophical, artistic). After a brief review of four emblematic cases for the use of authenticity rhetoric (Siti, Moresco, Mozzi, non-fiction), the article offers a brief overview of the narrative of last twenty years. It therefore ends with a reflection on a possible passage from one demystification of authenticity (with autofiction) to its internal amplification contradictory (with non-fiction). Cet article se propose de retracer une histoire de…
Genealogia dell'autofinzione italiana
2017
The article provides a genealogy of Italian autofiction analyzing texts by authors such as Walter Siti and Giulio Mozzi. An inquire upone the diary-like nature of autofictional narrative concludes the essay.
"La pura superficie" e la traslazione
2018
The article is a reading of the collected poems by Guido Mazzoni "La pura superficie" (Donzelli 2017)
Pavese indifferente? Parentele segrete fra Gli indifferenti e Il diavolo sulle colline
2022
The article offers a comparison between Alberto Moravia and Cesare Pavese on the basis of two novels: The Time of Indifference (1929) and The Devil in the Hills (1949). After sketching the unfriendly relationship between these writers, I aim to show how close The Devil in the Hills was to Moravia’s poetics through the analysis of themes, imagery and literary ascendance. The essay ends with a close reading of Moravia’s article “Pavese decadente” (1954), generally neglected by critics: its flaws and contradictions help us to understand how close Pavese and Moravia were at a certain moment, despite their plain, mutual animosity.
Due racconti in versi di Giulio Mozzi
2016
The article is a close reading of two poetic short stories by the Italian writer Giulio Mozzi (1960) from the collection "Il male naturale" (1998).
Finzioni metastoriche e sguardi politici dalla narrativa contemporanea
2014
Contemporary Italian Literature
Una comparsa in frantumi
2015
Postface to the short-story collection by the Italian writer Giulio Mozzi "Favole del morire" (2015)
Elena Ferrante e l'arte del risentimento
2018
The article reads the authorial choices and patterns of the Italian novelist Elena Ferrante, both analyzing her public interventions and her narrative outcomes in the terms of a poetics of resentment.
Commento e lettura di: Wu Ming, New Italian Epic: letteratura, sguardo obliquo, ritorno al futuro
2019
Introduction and comment of the literary essay by Wu Ming, New Italian Epic (Einaudi, 2009), with a selection of excerpts from the book.