L'allegria by Giuseppe Ungaretti
A spare, intensely concentrated collection of poems born from wartime experience that pares language down to brief, luminous fragments. Stark images of trenches, sea and shipwreck sit beside small domestic details—bread, night, a sudden light—producing flashes of grief, memory and an unexpected, fragile joy. Through elliptical lines and silences the poems transform personal trauma into a universal meditation on survival, language and the persistence of life amid ruin.
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- Published
- 1919
- Nationality
- Italian
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- Original Language
- Italian
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- Alternate Titles
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- Allegria
- Allegria di naufragi
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