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Gabriele d`Annunzio - Migiel, Marilyn; Valesio, Paolo - Yale University Press
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April 1992
288 p., 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
ISBN: 9780300048711
ISBN-10: 0300048718
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Gabriele d`AnnunzioThe Dark Flame
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Translated by Marilyn Migiel; Paolo Valesio
Out of Print.
Winner of the 1992 Triennial Presidential Award for the best work in Italian studies by the American Association of Italian Studies
Gabriele d'Annunzio (1863-1938) was a singular phenomenon in twentieth-century Italy. Poet, novelist, and dramatist, he was also known for his erotic and worldly extravagances and for his ardent nationalism and connection with the Fascist party. Critical evaluations of his work have vacillated sharply in the fifty years since his death, for they involve not only literary issues but political, ideological, moral, and social judgments as well. In this book Paolo Valesio provides a searching reexamination of d'Annunzio's philosophical and poetic thought that leads us to a fuller appreciation of the aesthetic value of his vast literary output. The first book to address critically all major genres in which d'Annunzio expressed himself, it is also the first work to examine within a unifying perspective d'Annunzio's seminal importance in the development of modern Italian poetry. According to Valesio, d'Annunzio's writings are a creative reply to philosophies like Nietzsche's. D'Annunzio's focus is on the interaction of the language of the sacred with that of the profane—the relation (at times continual, at times dialectic) of spiritual and secular discourse. Valesio finds that this theme in d'Annunzio's work places the writer in the cultural climate of fin-de-siècle Europe and America and at the same time challenges the conception of d'Annunzio as immoral—a conception that has blurred his critical image. An appendix to the book contains a critical essay by d'Annunzio, "Dant de Flourence," that has remained virtually unknown until now.
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