Leopardi, Giacomo - Daniela Bini (essay date 1983)
Daniela Bini (essay date 1983)
SOURCE: Bini, Daniela. “Introduction: A Synthesis for Leopardi.” In A Fragrance from the Desert: Poetry and Philosophy in Giacomo Leopardi, pp. 1-21. Saratoga, Calif.: ANMA Libri, 1983.
[In the following excerpt, Bini discusses Leopardi's writings as a synthesis between poetry and philosophy, maintaining that earlier critics have mistakenly considered the two aspects of his work incompatible.]
The imagination takes its flight only after the void, the inauthenticity of the existential project has been revealed; literature begins where the existential demystification ends.
(Paul de Man, Blindness & Insight)1
Life itself … has no meaning. But so what? “What are the meanings in our lives?” is the only question.
(Robert Solomon, The Passions)2
Tout ce qui est beau et tout...
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