POETIKA ESTETICIZMA U D’ANNUNZIJEVOM ROMANU ZADOVOLJSTVO / POETICS OF AESTHETICISM IN D'ANNUZIO'S NOVEL THE PLEASURE

Abstract

D'Annunzio's first novel, The Pleasure, is the clearest testimony of the poetics of aestheticism, there is a figure of an aesthete and in the centre of the novel, Andrea Sperelli, who is the author's doppelganger, and through whom he represents his crisis and discontent.The character of the aesthete, who is distancing himself from the primitiveness of the former bourgeois society to a diluted and sublime world of pure art, and whose mask d'Annunzio wears both in life and in art, reflects the ideological response about the Italian social relations of the period after the unification. Although it represents a period of crisis and the awareness about the lack of philosophy of aestheticism, The Pleasure does not indicate d'Annunzio's definite disassociation with the figure of the aesthete.immanent nationalism.