“The Torture of a wound that doesn’t healµ. Extent and limits of Croce’s influence on Giorgio Bassani
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Abstract
Bassani has often mentioned the decisive influence of Croce on his world-view, his poetics and his practice as a writer. However, despite some valuable contributions, this influence has never been studied in an accurate and systematic way. The present essay aims at filling this gap: to measure the extent of Croce’s influence on Bassani, but also to probe the crucial points on which the Italian novelist departs from some of Croce’s strongest presuppositions.
Keywords
- Benedetto Croce
- italian idealism
- Italian Antifascism
- the religion of freedom
- moral romanticism and decadentism
- historicism in literature
- Italian Aesthetics
- realism and neorealism
