Verismo e soggettivismo in Federico de Roberto
[EN]This essay aims to retrace the human and literary journey of Federico De Roberto with the aim of presenting him in a new light. While the novelist, essayist and journalist of the second half of the 19th century explicitly adhered to the canons of Italian Verismo, his complex and tormented existe...
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| Format: | article |
| Publication Date: | 2025 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | Universidad de Salamanca (USAL) |
| Repository: | GREDOS. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Salamanca |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:gredos.usal.es:10366/170518 |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10366/170518 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | De Roberto Federico Verismo disillusione soggettivismo spiritualizzante Verism disillusion spiritualizing subjectivism |
| Summary: | [EN]This essay aims to retrace the human and literary journey of Federico De Roberto with the aim of presenting him in a new light. While the novelist, essayist and journalist of the second half of the 19th century explicitly adhered to the canons of Italian Verismo, his complex and tormented existential journey reveals a powerful introspective component. His figure, which remained in the shadows for a long time, was only rehabilitated after the Second World War. His reserved character and existential and intellectual hypersensitivity greatly influenced his complex literary production, which included intense periods of creativity, others of research and experimentation, and even periods of closure and involution. The coexistence of veristic suggestion blends with accentuated subjectivism, revealing the influence of contemporary psychological novels. Even his masterpiece, I Viceré, is strongly pervaded by a spiritualising subjectivism and an atmosphere that is at times hallucinatory, rich in sensistic elements. This imprint marked his entire creative arc, generating apparent imbalances, which were in fact the result of the changing historical and cultural circumstances that pushed him towards the nascent European Decadentism of the fin de siècle, for which he can rightly be considered an authentic and innovative precursor of 20th-century fiction. |
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