«Solaria» e il canone della narrativa modernista

Among all Italian journals from the Interwar period, «Solaria» (1926-1936) gave the strongest contribution to the development of a modernist and truly European canon. The journal, however, was active during the second phase of Italian modernism, when experimentalism increasingly gave way to the pursuit of a mod- ern classicist ideal. «Solaria» had a particularly strong relation- ship with French culture and the «Nouvelle Revue Française»; it was also characterized by a special interest in Russian, German, and British contemporary literature. Dostoevksy and Proust were regarded by «Solaria» as the founders of a new narrative mode, although their in uence was limited to speci c aspects of their works. In the Thirties, Solaria grew more and more distant from modernism. As a consequence, the novel (which had always played a key role in the journal’s activity) remained a problematic genre with regard to both literary practice and theoretical reflection.