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This book focuses on the notion of desire in
late-nineteenth-century Italy, and how this notion shapes the life
and works of two of Italy's most prominent authors at that time,
Giovanni Pascoli and Gabriele D'Annunzio. In the fin de siecle, the
philosophical speculation on desire, inspired by Arthur
Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche intersected the popularization
of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Within this context,
desire is conceptualized as an obscure force and remnant of
mankind's animalistic origins. Both Pascoli and D'Annunzio put into
play the drama of desire as a force splitting the unity of the
characters in their works, and variously attempt to provide
solutions to this haunting force within the human self.
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