WAYS OF DEVELOPMENT OF LYRICAL PROSEIN THE ITALIAN LITERATURE OF THE FIRST QUARTEROF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
The first quarter of the twentieth century in Italy saw the flowering of lyrical prose. The fragment, or “prosa d’arte”, which took as a basis the autobiographical narrative, became the dominant genre. The issue of the genesis, historical development, as well as reception of such a genre remains controversial. The reasons for such a clear interest in lyrical prose include the need to fit Italian literature into the paradigm of the European avant-garde, overcoming naturalism and the poetics of decadence, as well as to bridge the gap between the outdated language of high poetry and live conversation.