«La storia non è poi la devastante ruspa che si dice»: l’‘Ungleichzeitigkeit’ nell’Italia del ‘boom’ economico
This article focuses on the relevance of the concept of Ungleichzeitigkeit to contemporary Italian literature: I suggest that the ‘contemporaneity of the non-contemporary’ perfectly describes Italy’s incomplete modernisation in the years of the economic boom. The old and the new, the countryside and...
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| description | This article focuses on the relevance of the concept of Ungleichzeitigkeit to contemporary Italian literature: I suggest that the ‘contemporaneity of the non-contemporary’ perfectly describes Italy’s incomplete modernisation in the years of the economic boom. The old and the new, the countryside and the city coexist as distinct and contradictory worlds, although permeable and communicating. Olivetti’s milieu is immediately aware of this historical-anthropological complexity, as witnessed by Adriano’s attempts to mitigate the uprooting caused by mass urbanisation. Among the best observers of Italian Ungleichzeitigkeit it is worth mentioning Ottieri, who traces it both between different regions of the peninsula (La linea gotica) and within Milan (Tempi stretti). The spatial contiguity of different temporalities reaches paradigmatic evidence in Donnarumma all’assalto. Similarly, Volponi – whose position dialogues dialectically with Pasolini’s views – expresses the split between advanced industries and ‘an obscurely biological Italy’ (Calvino) in Memoriale (a true ‘novel without idyll’). |
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| spelling | doaj-art-2b5ccc9c937341ca946dd8e32ad53e942025-08-20T02:59:23ZengUniversity of BolognaGriseldaonline1721-47772024-12-0123212715210.6092/issn.1721-4777/2026218632«La storia non è poi la devastante ruspa che si dice»: l’‘Ungleichzeitigkeit’ nell’Italia del ‘boom’ economicoFrancesco Diaco0Universität BaselThis article focuses on the relevance of the concept of Ungleichzeitigkeit to contemporary Italian literature: I suggest that the ‘contemporaneity of the non-contemporary’ perfectly describes Italy’s incomplete modernisation in the years of the economic boom. The old and the new, the countryside and the city coexist as distinct and contradictory worlds, although permeable and communicating. Olivetti’s milieu is immediately aware of this historical-anthropological complexity, as witnessed by Adriano’s attempts to mitigate the uprooting caused by mass urbanisation. Among the best observers of Italian Ungleichzeitigkeit it is worth mentioning Ottieri, who traces it both between different regions of the peninsula (La linea gotica) and within Milan (Tempi stretti). The spatial contiguity of different temporalities reaches paradigmatic evidence in Donnarumma all’assalto. Similarly, Volponi – whose position dialogues dialectically with Pasolini’s views – expresses the split between advanced industries and ‘an obscurely biological Italy’ (Calvino) in Memoriale (a true ‘novel without idyll’).https://griseldaonline.unibo.it/article/view/20262industrial literatureolivettiottiero ottieripaolo volponiungleichzeitigkeit |
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| title | «La storia non è poi la devastante ruspa che si dice»: l’‘Ungleichzeitigkeit’ nell’Italia del ‘boom’ economico |
| title_full | «La storia non è poi la devastante ruspa che si dice»: l’‘Ungleichzeitigkeit’ nell’Italia del ‘boom’ economico |
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| title_sort | la storia non e poi la devastante ruspa che si dice l ungleichzeitigkeit nell italia del boom economico |
| topic | industrial literature olivetti ottiero ottieri paolo volponi ungleichzeitigkeit |
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