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La grande guerra apocalisse della modernità: Ungaretti e gadda
Abstract
This essay sketches a route in the history of the modern idea of “apocalyptic”
in relation to the event of the Great War, focusing on the apocalyptic epiphanies in poetical texts of two of the greatest Italian writers who fought in
the First World War: Carlo Emilio Gadda and Giuseppe Ungaretti. The poems
of Porto Sepolto (1916), written and published during the War, and the stories
of Carlo Emilio Gadda, which retain traces of that War, even after several years, remain exemplary testimony to the various features of the apocalyptic
perception of the World War I, that was the terrible and striking explosion of
Modernity.
in relation to the event of the Great War, focusing on the apocalyptic epiphanies in poetical texts of two of the greatest Italian writers who fought in
the First World War: Carlo Emilio Gadda and Giuseppe Ungaretti. The poems
of Porto Sepolto (1916), written and published during the War, and the stories
of Carlo Emilio Gadda, which retain traces of that War, even after several years, remain exemplary testimony to the various features of the apocalyptic
perception of the World War I, that was the terrible and striking explosion of
Modernity.
