Il visibile e l’errore. Per Giorgio Cesarano

Though easily forgotten by critics, Giorgio Cesarano (1928-1975) has been a prominent figure in 1960s Italian poetry, before abandoning it to devote himself to an increasingly radical and solitary theoretical work, merged into the unfinished «Critica dell'utopia capitale» (1979-1993). This paper considers the non-human presence in the poetry of Cesarano as an allegory of what resists the landscape of ruins which humankind refers to as «reality» under the real domination of Capital. Focusing on poems such as «Il giorno di Capraia» (1961), «Una visita di fine estate» (1963), and other texts collected in «La tartaruga di Jastov» (1966), the tools of eco-criticism will dialogue with with a stylistic analysis in order to help define from a different perspective the core of Cesarano's poetic efforts: the description (and the overcoming) of «abolished life» («vita abolita»).