University of Pennsylvania ScholarlyCommons Publicly Accessible Penn Dissertations 2017 The Art Of Dying Every Second: On The Representations, Publishing Legacy, And Posthumous Writings Of Roberto Bazlen Marco Lepore University of Pennsylvania,
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[email protected]. The Art Of Dying Every Second: On The Representations, Publishing Legacy, And Posthumous Writings Of Roberto Bazlen Abstract My dissertation aims to describe and investigate the influence and legacy of the intellectual and cultural work of Roberto Bazlen. Interlocutor and consultant of many of the major writers and intellectuals of his time, highly valued publishing adviser, and author of few posthumously published writings, Bazlen, as Eugenio Montale recalled, “spent his life with the desire of leaving no tangible traces of his own transit”. He is nevertheless regarded today as a key figure of twentieth-century Italian literature. Still, because of the very nature of his intellectual activity, his figure and work have been studied only recently, and partially. In the first part of my dissertation I analyze the critical and novelistic representations of Bazlen, whose persona, in spite of his notorious discretion about his life, rose to a legendary status while he was still alive.