stracittà

▪ Italian literary movement

      an Italian literary movement that developed after World War I. Massimo Bontempelli (Bontempelli, Massimo) was the leader of the movement, which was connected with his idea of novecentismo. Bontempelli called for a break from traditional styles of writing, and his own writings reflected his interest in such modern forms as Surrealism and magic realism. The name stracittà, a type of back-formation from the word stracittadino (“ultra-urban”), was meant to emphasize the movement's adherence to general trends in European literature, in opposition to strapaese (from strapaesano [“ultra-local”])—collectively, those authors who followed nationalist and regionalist trends.

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