Resumen de Dare torto a "Satura". Un augurio per il quarto Montale
Proving Satura wrong. An Auspice for the Late Montale · This essay intends to read Montale’s "Satura" in a correct historical perspective, against a somehow wide-spread critical tendency to disregard its autonomous value in the history of Montale’s poetry. "Satura" is often read, and critically interpreted as a part of Montale’s ‘diary’ phase, and consequently almost invariably analysed in an inter-textual key in connection with Montale’s previous works, or considered as a mere reaction to the 1960s new-experimentalism. "Satura", instead, is both a specific and an autonomous coherently articulated work, resulting in a problematic re-reading of history, and the consequent tragic diagnosis of the situation of the Italian intellectual class, in the early nineteen-seventies
