Citation

Risso R. Critica Letteraria 2012; 40(154): 149-163.

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(Copyright © 2012)

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Abstract

This essay analyses Aldo Palezzeschi's novel :riflessi, in light of his personal and intellectual relationship with the poet Sergio Corazzini. As I will argue, Palazzeschi makes use of letters, poems and critical works from the period in order to craft a protagonist reminiscent of Corazzini. The aim of this essay is to read Palazzeschi's works as a corpus, filled with both poetry and prose and tied together by a strong poetic and ironic desire to describe the human essence - the human inability to understand themes such as death, suffering, injustice and suicide. The novel :riflessi, in part an epistolary work and in part narrative, is essentially a great example of Palazzeschi's ability to mix prose and poetry, reality and dream, irony and bitterness.

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