Il viaggio mitico in Sud America. Dino Campana – una sovversione non solo letteraria
Dino Campana´s mythical journey in South America. A literary and personal subversion

Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on the background to the cultural and literary reception in modern European societies which was, because of common aesthetic and ideological roots, formed by idealist thinking, later modified by phenomenological reduction, prepared to receive some of the literary production of Dino Campana. Even if interpreted as a precursor of the Italian literary avant-garde almost immediately, aiming to actualize the national literature and culture within the modernist European frame, Campana's reception was highly ambiguous as regards the critical evaluation of his poetry. The perception of his orphic and impressionist poetic work was conditioned by the lack of critical interpretations even in the Italian ambience, but the legend of the poet's personality gained him a place in every cultural panorama. The article also centres on Campana's journey to Argentina and Uruguay and on the topic of the memory of South American natural and cultural phenomena, which Campana transformed into poetic images in his most discussed texts of Canti Orfici. The legacy of the inner experience of some South American geographical places and cultural contexts is transformed into a poetic image of a mythic illusory South, discussed in terms of its motifs and poetic contents. It is assumed that Campana's poetry, by motifs legated to the South American ambience, is an exquisite example of the transformation of the memory in the mythopoietic process, where both the conscious work on expression and unconscious psychic conditions of the author are reflected in a poetry which is considered unique and inimitable within the early 1910s.

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