Abstract EN:

During the period 1908-1916, the "moralists" of "La Voce" maintain, contrary to the aesthetics of Croce at that moment prevailing in Italy, the organic relationship between art and moral, form and contents, and the superiority of the critical notion of "grandeur" to that of "beauty". Nevertheless, Slapter, Boine and Jahier write texts that evidence their dissolved and fragmentary style. Through the study of the "construction" process of the texts, the thesis aims to define the graphical, structural and narrative properties which distinguish the fragmentary writing in Il mio Carso, Frantumi, Ragazzo and Con me e con gli alpini. By following a perspective of genetic criticism and textual analysis, the thesis studies all the different phases in the realisation of the works, i. E. Sketches, outlines, rough copies, final copies, printed versions and published texts. The analysis shows that on one hand these texts are what "remains" of the breaking-up of the discourse categories and the disintegration of the literary genders, and on the other hand that these still contain - on a formal as well as on a thematic level - traces of an aspiration for unity and totality. The poetics of the fragment in the "moralists" is the expression of the irremediable fracture that characterises the beginning of the twentieth century : the awareness of incompleteness as the only possible image of totality.