1. Il narratore. Dalle lusinghe del Piacere agli ardori del Fuoco.
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Cristofari, Gioele
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NINETEENTH century , *NATURALISM , *PARABOLA , *NOVELISTS , *COLLECTIONS - Abstract
The article deals with Gabriele d'Annunzio's novelistic production in the last decade of the nineteenth century, the one extending from “Pleasure” (1889) to “The Flame” (1900). Having abandoned the veristic narrative examples used in the collections of novellas composed in the 1880s, and taken a clear field position against Zolian naturalism (by which he is also influenced), d'Annunzio opens his writing first to European simbolism (“Pleasure”), then to Russian models (“The Intruder”) and, starting from the last pages of the “Triumph of Death”, to Nietzschian superhomism, which will largely dominate the last two results (“The Virgins of the Rocks”, “The Flame”). This path is partly influenced by the author's attempt to fit the single romances into larger cycles of trilogies, the first identified a posteriori (“The Romances of the Rose”), the other two significantly incomplete, and limited to the first book (“The Romances of the Lily” and “The Romances of the Pomegranate”). With “The Flame”, having strained the limits of the form to the utmost, the parabola of d’Annunzio novelist closes for ten years: the Italian novel, moreover, would shortly be altered by the emergence of a broad modernist fault line, spearheaded by Luigi Pirandello. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024