Il piacere: I Capolavori della Letteratura Europea

Di Gabriele D'Annunzio

Simile al Dorian Gray di Oscar Wilde e al Des Esseintes di Huysmans, il conte Andrea Sperelli, dandy elegantissimo,  poeta di raffinata sensibilità e seduttore seriale, vive la propria vita come un’opera d'arte, ricercando ovunque la bellezza, l’alta cultura e l’Amore assoluto. Abbandonato nel colmo della passione dall’ardente Elena Muti, tenta di dimenticarla passando da un’avventura all’altra, all’insegna di una vita di voluttà e dissolutezza. Diventa così l'amante di una donna in grado di ispirargli un sentimento più spirituale e poetico, la pura e virginale Maria Ferres. Le due donne rappresentano per lui due forme di desiderio che egli sogna di armonizzare in una sintesi perfetta. Il lusso dei balli e dei palazzi romani, lo splendore barocco della città eterna segretamente pervasa di morte, fanno da sfondo sontuoso alla vicenda. Insieme al capolavoro di Huysmans, À Rebours, e a La morte a Venezia di Thomas Mann,  Il piacere rappresenta uno dei principali manifesti del decadentismo ed è considerato il romanzo più riuscito e giustamente più famoso di D'Annunzio.

• Lingua: Italiano
• Editore: Nemo Editrice
• Data di uscita: 7 apr 2018
• ISBN: 9788898790654

Gabriele D'Annunzio

Gabriele D’Annunzio (1863-1938) was an Italian poet, playwright, soldier, and political figure. Born in Pescara, Abruzzo, D’Annunzio was the son of the mayor, a wealthy landowner. He published his first book of poems at sixteen, launching his career as a leading Italian artist of his time. In 1891, he published his first novel, A Child of Pleasure, followed by Giovanni Episcopo (1891) and L’innocente (1892), which earned him a reputation among leading European critics as a member of the Italian avant-garde. By the end of the nineteenth century, he turned his efforts to writing for the stage with such tragedies as La Gioconda (1899) and Francesca da Rimini (1902). Radicalized during the First World War, D’Annunzio used his experience as a decorated fighter pilot to spread his increasingly nationalist ideology. In 1919, he spearheaded the takeover of the city of Fiume, which had been ceded at the Paris Peace Conference. As the leader of the Italian Regency of Carnaro, he sought to establish an independent authoritarian state and to support other separatist movements around the globe, but was forced to surrender to Italy in December 1920. Despite his failure, D’Annunzio inspired Mussolini’s National Fascist Party, which built on the violent tactics and corporatist system advocated by the poet and his allies. Toward the end of his life, D’Annunzio was named Prince of Montenevoso by King Victor Emmanuel III and served as the president of the Royal Academy of Italy.