D’Annunzijeva riječka pustolovina između nasilništva i slobodarstva O Luci Ljubavi Giovannija Comissa

Scientific paper - Original scientific paper

• Title (english): D'Annunzio's “Fiume Exploit” Between Libertinism and Violence. On the Port of Love by Giovanni Comisso
• Author: Marijan Bobinac
• Author's institution: University of Zagreb; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; (Department of German language and literature)
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: HUMANISTIC SCIENCES; Philology; Comparative Literature

Abstract (english)

The centuries-old territorial dispute over the status of the city of Rijeka/ Fiume reached a new and dangerous climax with D’Annunzio’s “Fiume exploit” (1919–1920); the adventurous action, meant as a militant response to the so-called mutilated victory in World War One, receives its historical importance particularly in regards to two contradictory phenomena: militant nationalist extremism whose different practices were accepted by then emerging right-wing radical movements on the one hand and, on the other hand, avant-garde art projects and new, unconventional lifestyles which were promoted and executed in Rijeka by many creative followers of the ‘soldier-poet’. The collection of short stories titled Il porte dell’amore (The Port of Love, 1924), written by Giovanni Comisso (1895–1969), one of D’Annunzio’s prominent adherents, stands out among contemporary literary representations of the ‘exploit’. The work features D’Annunzian Rijeka as a city of liberty and debauchery, neglecting most of the other important aspects of this historical event or referring to them indirectly, mostly through poetic images, sometimes also through grotesque humor. Dealing with subjects such as juvenile unconventionality, bravery and ferocity, Comisso’s stories focus on excessive sensuality as well as on emphatic loyalty to D’Annunzian ‘exploit’ and hence, of course, on the Italian imperial project.

• Keywords (english): postimperial narratives; Giovanni Comisso; Gabriele D’Annunzio; “Fiume Exploit”
• Language: croatian
• Publication type: Scientific paper - Original scientific paper
• Publication status: Published
• Peer review: Peer review
• Publication version: Published version
• Journal title: Književna smotra : Časopis za svjetsku književnost
• Numbering: vol. 52, no. 196(2), pp. 5-13
• p-ISSN: 0455-0463
• e-ISSN: 2459-6329
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:131:827466
• Publication: 2020
• Project: Number: -; Title (croatian): Nakon imperija: refleksije postimperijalnog stanja u srednjoeuropskim književnostima nakon 1918.; Acronym: -; Leader: Marijan Bobinac; Jurisdiction: Croatia; Funding stream: Namjensko financiranje znanstvene djelatnosti na Filozofskom fakultetu Sveučilišta u Zagrebu u 2019. godini
• Document URL: https://hrcak.srce.hr/244990
• Type of resource: Text
• Access conditions: Open access
• Created on: 2020-10-21 09:01:03