Per una lettura dei notturni veneziani di d’Annunzio
abstract
The analysis is dedicated to one of the most pervasive semantic fields of the Notturno, that is the ‘space-time’ of the night: a domain that has fostered the development of metamorphic images. Alternating variations and recoveries, the night-related themes – intending night also as epiphanic ‘space-time’ of mourning, of sacrifice, of self-giving – are analyzed both by a rhetorical point of view and stylistic, while the Venetian promenades that set the rhythm of the textual syntax, describing even the urban space of a Venice obscured by war, are vivid occasions to discover the persistent polymorphism of the first person that lives and writes.
Keywords: Notturno • D’Annunzio Prose Writer • Thematic Criticism