Agamben, Delfini and the indeterminacy of lived and behaved

Authors

  • Federico Fastelli Università di Firenze

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7917.2017v22n2p12

Abstract

The essay discusses the original interpretation of Giorgio Agamben regarding the work of Italian writer Antonio Delfini. In particular, the essay analyzes the central importance of Delfini’s poetic reflection on Agamben’s aesthetic system: indeed, Agamben connects the anti-modern intransigence of Delfini to a general consideration on the poetic word and to the historic mutation of complex relationship between work and biography in Western literary culture. In this way, the essay reflects on the parallel identified by Agamben between the deep meaning of the tale Il ricordo della Basca and the idea of a pre-babelic “pure language” mentioned by Benjamin in his famous work about The Task of the Translator and in many others occasions. Other Môdema text will be examined, mainly the verses production, wich were chosen in Poesie della fine del mondo, del prima and del dopo collection; but the reflection do not put aside the Delfini diaries and letters, seeking out to offer a broad outlook of his production.

Author Biography

Federico Fastelli, Università di Firenze

É pesquisador de literatura comparada na Universidade de Florença. Seus estudos se concentraram principalmente na vanguarda europeia da segunda metade do século XX e nas relações entre literatura e artes visuais. Dedicou ensaios as obras de E. Sanguineti, A. Arbasino, N. Balestrini, G. Morselli, A. Robbe-Grillet, M. Butor, G. Testori, P. Bigongiari, L. Marcucci. Publicou a primeira monografia sobre a poesia de Elio Pagliarani (Dall’avanguardia all’eresia. L’opera poetica di Elio Pagliarani, Florença, 2011). Escreveu ensaios sobre a teoria da vanguarda, o teatro do Grupo 63, à retórica da Poesia Visual e Poesia Concreta, à serialidade televisiva. O interesse pelos acontecimentos internacionais da novela experimental é a base de sua segunda monografia, Il Nuovo Romanzo La narrativa d’avanguardia nella prima fase della postmodernità (1953-1973) (FLORENÇA, 2013). Junto com T. Spignoli, M. Corsi e M. C. Papini, editou o volume La poesia in immagine/L’immagine in poesia (UDINE, 2014).

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Published

2017-12-14

How to Cite

FASTELLI, Federico. Agamben, Delfini and the indeterminacy of lived and behaved. Anuário de Literatura, [S. l.], v. 22, n. 2, p. 12–24, 2017. DOI: 10.5007/2175-7917.2017v22n2p12. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/literatura/article/view/2175-7917.2017v22n2p12. Acesso em: 14 mar. 2025.

Issue

Vol. 22 No. 2 (2017)

Section

Dossiê: "A literatura italiana sob a ótica de Giorgio Agamben"

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