Numéro spécial sur Giacomo Debenedetti.International audienceIn Riviera, amici, written a few months after his seminal essay Proust 1925, the young critics-writer Debenedetti, though without stating it openly, puts into action the generative laws of À larecherche du temps perdu (intermittencies of the heart, motivation of proper nouns, artistic transfiguration of the landscape, metapoetic meditation...) by skilfully inserting these laws in the Italian linguistic-literary heritage. The narrator, a distressed writer, meditates on literary inspiration and the ineffable, following the Proustian model. In the rich dialogic texture of this story, he also integrates the poetic language of Ossi di seppia, thus offer...