SECOND VOLUME

The second volume is devoted to the authors, including under the name Second Decadent or "nine hundred". While Prime Decadent allowed escape from reality in a shelter looking for a "minimum of livability", the Second resigned in the face of realization that the crisis of Western culture is destroying any possibility of finding a meaning to existence and consequently to understand the real, so that the artist can only represent "what we are and what we do not want" (E. Montale) or play with words, with shapes and colors.

The feeling of instability and insecurity, which we find in most of the authors of this period, the explanation lies in the philosophy of Existentialism, according to which the individual feels thrown into a world that is foreign to him, he does not know the reasons, goals, mechanisms, and in front of which he suffers from being alienated. All the choices he has made are resolved in a failure, a failure that leads to a sense of anxiety, nausea and despair. The word is no longer able to "tell" the world and flees or nell'iperuranio, as happens Hermeticism, or in the autonomy of the signifier, as in the Vanguards.

While nell'irriducibilità individual poet to every generalization, the picture that goes from Govoni at Zanotto presents clear and consistent.