Gabriele D’Annunzio and World Literature

This wide-ranging and informative collection makes a strong case for seeing D'Annunzio as among the key figures in modern world literature. Persuasively demonstrating how D'Annunzio had a broad influence across Europe, East Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, the collection covers topics including D'Annunzio's wide reading in world literature, as well as the author’s relationship with his translators and his global reception. The book makes a valuable contribution to world literature studies, as well as to the burgeoning scholarly interest in the global fin de siècle. -- Matthew Potolsky, University of Utah
This edited collection tells a compelling story about Gabriele D’Annunzio’s role in transnational and translingual literary and cultural exchanges in the fin-de-siècle. It does so by using the highly productive framework of world literature, offering a refreshing shift in research perspective and methodological framing which helps to reposition D’Annunzio and Italian Decadent culture in a much broader context of transnational flow of artistic and cultural influences. […] The focus on a transnational and cultural contextualization of D’Annunzio’s multifaceted literary production is the much needed ground upon which we can better appreciate the standing, influence, and legacy of this figure who, for the duration of the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century, was the only Italian writer to truly transcend national borders. -- Giuliana Pieri, Royal Holloway, University of London * Modern Language Review *
Gabriele D’Annunzio and World Literature, the first volume on D’Annunzio with a global scope published in English, provides an accurate comparative frame of reference to reexamine the figure of D’Annunzio as a transnational author capable of traveling across linguistic and cultural contexts. It truly succeeds in rendering the profile of D’Annunzio as a world author, deconstructing the mythology on which the traditional image of the Poeta Vate, patriot, aesthete, and charismatic militant man is grounded. [...]the volume ultimately produces a compelling claim that translingualism and cosmopolitanism intrinsically mold his multifaceted oeuvre and propitiously opens up new avenues of interpretation of his writings in times of globalization. -- Francesca Bini * Italica *