UN ARCHIVIO DEL NOVECENTO. INEDITI DAL FONDO “NINO SAVARESE” (1914-1929)

In 2025 the eightieth anniversary of the death of the Sicilian writer Nino Savarese (1882-1945) will be celebrated. Despite recent editorial and critical efforts, aimed at freeing his works from a series of reiterated formulas (fragmentist, rondist, regionalist taste), a definitive recognition of the gnoseological value of his research is lacking. The discovery of some unpublished correspondence with the most illustrious intellectuals of the 20th century (Bacchelli, Bonsanti, Borgese, Cardarelli, Cecchi, Contini, Falqui, Gatto, Piovene, Rosso di San Secondo, Tozzi, Vigolo) – preserved in the Municipal Library of Enna and some of which reproduced in the appendix to this contribution – allows us to illuminate his figure and opus, reconstructing some essential junctions of his artistic career and, above all, to grasp the complexity of his writing, a prose of moral invention which combines the Contes of Voltaire with Leopardi, the picaresque novel with the metaphysical poetry of Montale