There is a D'Annunzio unusual.
not the bon vivant of Rome "Byzantine" and the novelist Tombeur de femmes.
not the poet who hears the Nature. Not that the novelist draws from his land realist scenarios. Instead, a D'Annunzio, who tells tales of Christmas , collected in a booklet published by Solfanelli go quickly sold out in two editions in the coming months and will return to the library. The novelty is that in these stories the writer echoes the tradition of Pescara, reassembles parables heard rather than read and especially gives way to a rate that is not usual. Lucio D'Arcangelo as noted in the preface, "there was a literary movement that D'Annunzio has not touched or anticipated, starting with the realism and ending with the prose of art." But "rarely touched the strings of the fantastic, or, rather, the wonderful pure." Yet this narration is not burdened by excessive descriptive, as often happens nell'Immaginifico. The tales, taken from 'parables and stories' dates printed in 1916 in Naples, are dry and therefore more effective. In short, D'Annunzio has understood perfectly that this literature should be as allusive, to leave room for imagination the reader, its enchantment. What we publish here is called outright "Legend in Abruzzo" and is in fact a parable very current on the seed of discord that is wedged between peoples while most moving moment of theophany. "The treasure of the poor", the most basic and poignant, tells of two elderly people who had nothing and that on Christmas Eve heat up in the eyes of a pious cat, a plot that springs from a popular saying that the last embers the chimney is called "cat's eyes." In the history of San Laima - navigator, pirate, poet and later saint - alternate faith and violence. "The daughter of Boreas" has a wonderful charm in the accumulation of events. Only "A tree in Russia" comes out of our folk tradition and revolves around a fir tree full of lights like the Prince "Nutcracker." But the love affair that is intertwined - the count at the end heartthrob intrigued by an eighteen year old - refers to D'Annunzio dandy. And the writer of the contamination. What still fascinates.
Lidia Lombardi
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