Between "lacune di luogo" and "iperspazi": poetry, perception and imaginary in Andrea Zanzotto.

Il titolo di questo lavoro, prendendo spunto da un verso tratto dalla raccolta La Beltà e alludendo a una mancanza («lacune di luogo»), intende darsi come dimostrazione di quella idea di negatività messa in luce da Agamben. Sin da subito, quando si studia la poesia di Andrea Zanzotto, ci si trova a dover affrontare una vera e propria topologia dell’irreale, che rende vani i tentativi di impiegare categorie come quelle di Natura o di paesaggio, da sempre considerati peraltro come i topoi prediletti dal poeta. Se da una parte Zanzotto dichiara costantemente l’inappropriabilità della “Cosa”, sia essa il paesaggio o l’essenza della lingua, dall’altra egli si ostina ad indicare la presenza di un reale non pienamente assimilabile al linguaggio.As exemplified by recent works (Contro le radici; Rootedness; The philosopher’s plant), the image of the root recurs very often in contemporary metaphorology. This figure is used not only in politics in order to communicate a relationship between culture and groundedness, but also in other fields. More precisely, the vegetal metaphor is a paradigm through which contemporary philosophers and writers depict the relation between man and the world. This inquiry starts from Heidegger’s stance. According to him, a valuable work of art has to be rooted in the native land of the artist. The aim of this work is to highlight the controversial aspects of this statement through the work of Andrea Zanzotto. Although he is the most “rooted” poet in Italian literature, his poetics is related to a philosophical questioning that leads to doubt of the interdependence between authenticity and groundedness. Therefore, the discovery of a reality without any center is reflected by peculiar images and figures. The lexicon used to describe is very close to the botanical and geological metaphors used by philosophers like Deleuze, Guattari, Glissant. Thanks to a methodology founded on phenomenology and aesthetics, this survey wants to offer a new interpretation of Zanzotto’s poetry and prose