Antonio Delfini tra nostagia e satira

Abstract

The narrative works of Antonio Delfini repeatedly stage the conflict between the free activity of the imagination, on which, according to the writer, the authority of art is founded, and the reality principle. In particular, two intersecting themes are examined in this essay. The first is that of the confrontation between the urban reality of his hometown of Modena and its transfiguration through memory and writing, is articulated under the sign of “nostalgia”. There is, however, an ironic dimension in Delfini’s narrative which blooms into full-fledged satire in the short pieces in Misa Bovetti e altre cronache, through which emerges the second motif examined, that of the superfluity of the artist in modernity.

Article text in Italian.