Una lezione di antiretorica: Hemingway e gli scrittori italiani

Abstract

Since the late Thirties, Hemingway starts being appreciated in Italy as the most powerful interpreter of the vitality of American modernism, both by an increasingly large audience, and by a considerable number of writers. Thanks to its style distant from the rhetoric of militarism, in the immediate aftermath of World War II, A Farewell to Arms becomes an aesthetic and political model for writers like Pavese and Vittorini, as well as for a promising younger author like Italo Calvino. Hemingway's success is largely due to his spare and reticent narration—a perfect mode to convey the existential void generated by the absurdity of war.