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| Voyage to the end of the word |
Voyage
to the End of the World encapsulates the spirit of the poet through
its discussion and inclusion of various forms of puns, visuality, neologisms,
and the full range of devices that poets have relied on to expand the
capabilities of expressive language for years!
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| Rento Barilli |
Renato Barilli, critic and literary historian of Italian art was born in
Bologna in 1935; he teaches aesthetics and art history at the
University of Bologna. Barilli came to fame in the 1960s, part of a new
European avant-garde movement that culminated in what came to be called
"Group 63". As a literary critic, he was associated with, among other
things, the French nouveau roman, the contemporary Italian fiction and
the latest trends of the avant-garde poetry. As an art critic, has
covered cutting-edge aesthetics, from pop art to body art and his work
is particularly focused on the avant-garde and the relationship between
art and technology, and in particular between art and computers.
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In 1996 he published an impressive essay "The Dawn of the Contemporary:
European Art from Fiissli to Delacroix", which analyzes some of the most
important examples of modern and contemporary art. In "Comedy of Kafka"
(1999), Barilli gives an interpretation of Freud's reading of the
famous German writer.
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| A painting of Rento Barilli from an Italian newspaper |
