Cristina Campo e la ricezione di Gustaw Herling-Grudziński in Italia
Cristina Campo and the Reception of Gustaw Herling-Grudziński in Italy.

Summary/Abstract: Among other records, the Archive of Gustaw Herling-Grudziński in Naples holds Cristina Campo’s unpublished letters to him. The letters bear witness to a literary relation between the two writers and intellectuals which began when "Pale d’altare", a volume of short stories by Herling- Grudziński, was translated into Italian and published in Italy in 1960. Cristina Campo, a poet, essayist, translator and prominent figure in 20 th -century Italian literature, was enthusiastic about Herling- Grudziński’s volume. She comprehensively discussed it in an insightful review entitled ‘La torre e l’isola,’ published in "Il Punto" in 1961. Her review marked Herling-Grudziński’s debut in Italy and became a highly influential factor in the Italian reception of his literary works. The author himself regarded it as one of the most important critical texts addressing his writings. The aim of my paper is to highlight the relevance of Cristina Campo to the Italian reception of Herling-Grudziński’s works and to illumine the relations between the Polish writer and his Italian critic through the unpublished letters preserved in the Herling-Grudziński Archive. The paper also refers to other reviews of "Pale d’altare", which were offered by Elèmire Zolla, Roberto Calasso, Margherita Guidacci and Leone Traverso, associated with the same literary circle, and shows the impact of Campo’s enthusiasm on some of these appraisals

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