of this prolific and eclectic writer (poet, novelist, dramatist and playwright), I just needed the fantasy genre and this is when I discovered, thanks to the publisher Solfanelli, this authentic gem, which is five stories, of which four were drawn from popular legends of Abruzzo.
The first volume, entitled A tree in Russia, is not a real fairy tale, but a sort of Christmas adventures of two Russian aristocrats and more like the outline of a normal story, however, does not arouse special interest.
Instead, far more important are the other four, a review of the Abruzzi folk tradition handed down orally and that D'Annunzio was established on paper in its own way. And when I say in his own way, while acknowledging undeniable literary qualities, especially appropriate use of the Italian language, I lamented the excessive affectation of style, with descriptions of great effect, but so detailed that, in addition to not leave room for the imagination of the reader, to end up overshadowing the story itself.
course, is well known that the excess is rooted in D'Annunzio, as a man and as an author, and this comes from a real phobia narcissist, a pleasure to do everything to show off himself. So the work does not capture the character of autonomy that enhances, but is a means to achieve un'autocelebrazione. Lucio D'Arcangelo, who has compiled an excellent presentation of this volume, is well aware when he wrote "Al D'Annunzio narrator has often been blamed for tendency to use the description to the detriment of the narrative itself. "And of course runs the shelter, citing Henry James Italian author who wrote" D'Annunzio has the quality supremely interesting to the narrator: to fix, so to speak, the tone of each group of objects that is coming, to secure it with density and intensity. " In this regard, however, do not forget the style of this American writer, characterized by long sentences and digressions peppered with adjectives, with a minutiae of descriptions similar to that of D'Annunzio, and so you can easily explain the enthusiastic feedback.
Much I personally think that D'Annunzio could be a great writer if he was a man with a little 'more humility, that's certainly lacked.
However, the tales are left to read, even with the stylistic limits of which I have said and are better suited for adults than for children. Of all my preference goes to the short-Treasure of the poor, in which, incidentally, the author has focused the story and the message to the actual writing. This story is really beautiful and alone is worth the entire book, in fact I highly recommend reading it, because its meaning is so deep that you'll feel in front of a D'Annunzio different, and perhaps, when he wrote it, other than the it was really because Antep in itself a story that the end is adorned with shades of great poetic effect.
Renzo Montagnoli
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