La poesia in prosa nel modernismo italiano

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to highlight the modernity of five Italian authors of prose poetry who were born in the ’80s of the Nineteenth century and wrote their masterpieces in the ’10s of the Twentieth century: Camillo Sbarbaro, Dino Campana, Giovanni Boine, Piero Jahier, Scipio Slataper. The article traces the critical bibliography of these authors, then shows the innovative features of their works. Prose poetry is presented as one of the strategies through which the epistemological crisis that characterized modernism has been expressed. Sbarbaro, Campana, Boine, Jahier and Slataper sense the cultural crisis of the late nineteenth- early twentieth century, and translate it into a renewal of the forms through which literature can represent human consciousness.