The Expression of the Inexpressible in Eugenio Montale's Poetry: Metaphor, Negation, and Silence

ISBN-13: 9780199248988 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 240 str.

Clodagh J. Brook

Opis

Locating the greatest Italian poet of the twentieth century, Eugenio Montale, firmly within European Modernism, this book examines the struggle with language that is central to his work. In its unravelling of the inexpressibility paradox, the book offers a new reading of Montale's early verse, and reveals how in articles and metapoetic comments Montale gives us insights into both his poetics and the whole process of expression.

Recenzje

The grasp of European modernist literature shown in Brook's work is firm; although the story has been told before, it is a pleasure to read such a nuanced, yet concise, review of Dante's and Leopardi's views on inexpressibility, of modernism's debt to symbolist poetry, and of Nietzsche's role in the fracturing of certainties that underpinned prior vast systems of thought in which the ability of language to express fully had not been put into radical doubt ... thoughtful and thought-provoking book.