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La voce degli scrittori e la Prima Guerra Mondiale
The Voice of Writers and the First World War

Author(s): Cornelia Nichifor
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Comparative Study of Literature
Published by: UNIVERSITATEA »ȘTEFAN CEL MARE« SUCEAVA
Keywords: existential desolation;man' s fragility;attachment to life;courage to live;

Summary/Abstract: Focused on the memory of people, places and things, on the language and its situation 100 years ago, on literature as a repository of the memory of these events, the tragic experience of the Great War left a profound mark in the literary production of all the countries involved, also because many were the poets and writers who participated in first person as soldiers. The trenches were also a melting pot of immense feelings and emotions. Pain, suffering and death mix with each other as excipients, giving voice to the oppressed souls. Among these stands out for literary involvement and poetic skills the Romanian writer Hortensia Papadat Bengescu and the Italian writer Giuseppe Ungaretti

  • Issue Year: XXXII/2019
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 109-112
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: Italian