Neoavanguardia

The Neoavanguardia was an avant-garde literary movement in Italy in the 50s and 60s, which was characterized by formal and content- language experiments. The members include, among others, Nanni Balestrini, Edoardo Sanguineti, Umberto Eco, Antonio Porta, Elio Pagliarani, Alfredo Giuliani, Giorgio Manganelli, Luigi Malerba, Germano Lombardi, Francesco Leonetti, Alberto Gozzi, Massimo Ferretti, Franco Lucentini, Amelia Rosselli.

Inspired by modernist writers such as Ezra Pound and TS Eliot criticized the " crepuscolarismo " ( intimist approach), especially the Italian poetry of the 20th century, and were opposed to " neo-capitalist " one language. In contrast, they put a quasi- parodic language with often meaningless verses (non- significanza ).

At the movement also includes the circle of established after a meeting in Solunto at Palermo Gruppo 63, a number of writers and intellectuals from the vicinity of the literary magazine Il Verri and the anthology I Novissimi. The conference included, among other things, a theater performance of works by Nanni Balestrini Edoardo Sanguineti and. The movement fomented in the Italian literary world strict polemics: it was accused of being " irrational formalists " dangerous Marxists, " late Futurists " and the creator of a " renewed Arcadiens ".

• Literary group