“Il tramonto d’Europa”. Ungaretti e le poetiche del secondo Novecento

The shift between the first and second half of twentieth century marked a watershed. It represented “sunset modernity” made tradition unattainable, thereby calling into question very survival poetry. This collection focuses on work Giuseppe Ungaretti as poet, translator, critic, which took lead from this fracture. As essays gathered here show, fracture specific shape in Ungaretti’s work, was reviewed distinct ways had lasting impact up to present day, alongside twentieth-century history book thus offers multifaceted picture aimed at assessing albeit provisionally later writings his legacy for future generations writers.