Aleksandr Blok, La Violetta notturna e altre poesie, prefazione e traduzione di Nilo Pucci, Giuliano Ladolfi Editore, Borgomanero (Novara), 2016, euro 10.

A small book about a great and highly beloved Russian poet: Aleksandr Blok (1880-1921), one of the most painful voices of his time, exacerbated irreparably from the outcomes of the October Revolution.

If every poetry anthology speaks first of all to the predilection of those who set it up, the private portrait of the poet chosen by it delineates reverberates in the common cultural space, adding new dots to its perception.

The blockbuster syllabus Nilo Pucci presents for Ladolfi publisher picks up on that crunchy crest in which, around 1906, almost unwittingly, the poet leans out of his symbolic past to lose himself in a space of his own, marked by abject afflictions. From his poetic legacy, with enigmatic and apocalyptic signs, are transposed - along an arch that embraces the first fifteen years of the last century - some of the most breathtaking passages, where the ambush of restlessness floats in certain confidences, or rages in unresolved exaltations.