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Italy and the MilitaryThe Artist-Officer: War, Beauty, and the Nation in Ardengo Soffici’s Kobilek

Italy and the Military: The Artist-Officer: War, Beauty, and the Nation in Ardengo Soffici’s Kobilek [Simona Storchi’s chapter explores the military experience in World War I as narrated in Ardengo Soffici’s diaries Kobilek, La ritirata del Friuli, and Errore di coincidenza. These diaries develop a narrative marked by a sense of interclass comradeship engendered by the war effort and new forms of kinships and allegiances created by communal military life in the trenches. As Storchi insightfully notices, this physical experience of the conflict, which draws together officers and soldiers and sets them in opposition to the high command of the army and the Italian political leadership, is posited as the foundation of a new Italian body politic shaped by a war in which traditional forms of military discipline are replaced with alternative forms of internalized discipline centered on the cult of the nation. This foundational narrative of the new Italy that emerged from the trenches would inform Soffici’s aesthetic politics in the 1920s and his support of the fascist regime.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Italy and the MilitaryThe Artist-Officer: War, Beauty, and the Nation in Ardengo Soffici’s Kobilek

Part of the Italian and Italian American Studies Book Series
Editors: Roveri, Mattia
Storchi, Simona
Italy and the Military — Dec 23, 2020
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
ISBN
978-3-030-57160-3
Pages
267 –288
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-57161-0_12
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[Simona Storchi’s chapter explores the military experience in World War I as narrated in Ardengo Soffici’s diaries Kobilek, La ritirata del Friuli, and Errore di coincidenza. These diaries develop a narrative marked by a sense of interclass comradeship engendered by the war effort and new forms of kinships and allegiances created by communal military life in the trenches. As Storchi insightfully notices, this physical experience of the conflict, which draws together officers and soldiers and sets them in opposition to the high command of the army and the Italian political leadership, is posited as the foundation of a new Italian body politic shaped by a war in which traditional forms of military discipline are replaced with alternative forms of internalized discipline centered on the cult of the nation. This foundational narrative of the new Italy that emerged from the trenches would inform Soffici’s aesthetic politics in the 1920s and his support of the fascist regime.]

Published: Dec 23, 2020

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