This paper aims to link the writing of F.T. Marinetti’s Mafarka il futurista with the “great contest for an unpublished italian novel” proposed by the literary magazine Poesia. The negative ending of this competition raises several aesthetic issues, similar to the ones that may have guided the father of Futurism in writing his first novel. Therefore, it is possible to confirm the precocious interest of the Italian avant-garde in the novel genre.
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Il presente contributo intende collegare la stesura di Mafarka il futurista di F.T. Marinetti al “grande concorso di Poesia per un romanzo italiano inedito”. L’esito negativo della competizione fa emergere una serie di considerazioni estetiche, paragonabili a quelle che avrebbero guidato il padre del futurismo nella scrittura del suo primo romanzo. Viene così confermata la precoce attenzione dell’avanguardia italiana nei confronti di questo genere letterario.
This study analyses selected aspects of the Italian Futurist movement’s political agenda, its involvement in interventionist campaigns for Italy to join the First World War, and its subsequent role in the forming of the Fascist movement. The Intervento, the nine-month period when the nation was deciding whether to join the war, became an important milestone in Italian history, bringing together diverse political forces in Italy previously hostile to each other, shaping the traits which would determine its future. The turbulent days of the Intervento also marked the beginning of co-operation between the founder of Futurism, F. T. Marinetti, and Benito Mussolini, which culminated in the founding of the Fasci di Combattimento.
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