Florence 1926 : Solaria et la question de la modernité

Abstract

In the mid-1920s, Solaria, the Florentine journal, defined a literary program open towards Europe. By examining the modalities of the readings of foreign literatures it offered, we can analyze the ideological and aesthetic stakes of Solaria’s project: what is at stake is at the same time to fight against the provincialism of Italian intellectual life and to offer a renewal of the genre of the novel in Italy. The analysis of the references made to Dostoievski, Gide, Joyce or Proust thus sheds light on the ambitions of the journal’s contributors but also on the limitations of their enterprise.

Keywords

• Solaria (periodical)
• literary journals
• intellectual life
• literary criticism
• literary modernity — Italy (1919-1939)