Luigi Gualdo "corridore a staffetta" nella" selva" di fine Ottocento

Since the Nineties of the nineteenth century, the scenario of an «evil of living» hasbeen designed to be the «theme» of which the most significant poetic and prosaic experiencesof the twentieth century are nourished, in a fertile dialectic of crises andrefoundings. The way in which the conflicting relationship between «cognition ofreality» and the «internal plot of consciousness» takes shape in Decadenza, the lastnovel by Luigi Gualdo, published in 1892, includes the writer among the precursorsof a cognitive and inventive reconfiguration.