Neoavanguardia

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The Neoavanguardia was an avant-garde literary movement in Italy in the 1950s and 1960s, which was characterized by formal and content-related language experiments. Members include 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 like Ezra Pound and TS Eliot , they criticized the "crepuscolarismo" (intimistic approach) especially of 20th century Italian poetry and opposed a "neo-capitalist" language. On the other hand, they use a quasi-parodic language with often meaningless verses (non-significanza).

The group also includes Gruppo 63 , founded after a conference in Solunto near Palermo , a number of writers and intellectuals from the field of the literary magazine Il Verri and the anthology I Novissimi . The conference included a theatrical performance of works by Nanni Balestrini and Edoardo Sanguineti . The movement stirred up severe polemics in the Italian literary world: it was insulted as "irrational formalists", dangerous Marxists, "belated futurists" and as the creator of a "renewed arcadia".