Abstract EN:

Based upon three major fields of research (cultural sociology, contemporary prose and poetry) these studies resort to the concepts of fissure and disrupture as critical tools which are likely to shed a new light upon 20th century culture. This may concern examples of social fissures (the crisis of the rural world, of the church of florence, of such priviliged cities as tieste), of literary disruption (numerous emotional gaps in pavese's writings, but also in lampedusa's, landolfi's ortese's, morante's, bonaviri's, calvino's and buzzati's) or poetical fissures (in saba, but also in della casa, montale, caproni, basolini, and above all in luzi); all these examples enable us to bring together the various components of a culture which introjected the ideas of weakness, restlessness, mobility. We thus come across two antithetic poles: umberto eco who endeavours to deny castration (another type of disruption so to speak), by filling in the gap inherent in the tight network of multiple signs reflecting one another, and on the other hand mario luzi who starting from the radical disruption of the modern world and of today's individual, all this leads to the utopia of a new notion of wholeness: all the various significations of modernity torn by torment.