The neoavanguardia was an avant-garde

Avant-garde

Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....

 Italian literary movement, characterized by a strong push towards formal experimentation in language. Authors involved include Nanni Balestrini

Nanni Balestrini

Nanni Balestrini is an Italian experimental poet, author and visual artist of the Neoavanguardia movement.- Context :Nanni Balestrini is associated with the Italian writers movement Neoavanguardia. He wrote for the magazine Il Verri, co-directed Alfabeta and was one of the Italian writers...

, Edoardo Sanguineti

Edoardo Sanguineti

Edoardo Sanguineti was an Italian writer who was born in Genoa.-Biography:During the 1960s he was a leader of the neo avant-garde Gruppo 63 movement, founded in 1963 at Solunto....

, Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco Knight Grand Cross is an Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose , an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory...

, Antonio Porta

Antonio Porta (author)

Antonio Porta was an author and poet and one of the founders of the Italian literary movement Gruppo 63.- Biography :...

, Elio Pagliarani

Elio Pagliarani

Elio Pagliarani is an Italian poet and literary critic, who belonged to the avant-garde Gruppo 63 movemement. He was born in Viserba, near Rimini....

, Alfredo Giuliani, Giorgio Manganelli

Giorgio Manganelli

Giorgio Manganelli was an Italian journalist, avant-garde writer and literary critic. A native of Milan, he was one of the leaders of the avant-garde literary movement in Italy in the 1960s. He was a baroque and expressionist writer. Manganelli translated Edgar Allan Poe's complete stories and...

, Luigi Malerba

Luigi Malerba

Luigi Malerba was an Italian author who wrote short stories , historical novels, and screenplays, and who co-founded the Gruppo 63, based on Marxism and Structuralism...

, Germano Lombardi, Francesco Leonetti, Alberto Gozzi, Massimo Ferretti, Franco Lucentini

Franco Lucentini

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, Amelia Rosselli

Amelia Rosselli

Amelia Rosselli was an Italian poet. She was the daughter of Marion Cave, an English political activist, and Carlo Rosselli, who was a hero of the Italian anti-Fascist Resistance—founder, with his brother Nello, of the liberal socialist movement "Justice and Liberty." He and his brother were...

 and Lello Voce

Lello Voce

Lello Voce is an Italian poet, writer and Journalist who was born in Naples in 1957.He lives and works in Treviso .Poet, writer and performer, he was among the founders of Gruppo 93 and of the six-monthly literary magazine ....

 among others.

Neoavanguardia poets, inspired by modernist English language writers such as Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American expatriate poet and critic and a major figure in the early modernist movement in poetry...

 and TS Eliot, were opposed to the crepuscolarismo (intimistic view) which had characterized Italian poetry in the 20th century, and, above all, to what they defined as neo-capitalistic language. The result was a quasi-parodistic language that often led to meaningless verses (non-significanza) and the so-called "art as a plaything in itself."

The movement originated as the Gruppo '63, which was founded in a hotel at Solunto, near Palermo

Palermo

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, mostly by writers who had collaborated with the Il Verri literary magazine. The conference included a theatre spectacle on works by Balestrini and Sanguineti among others. The appearance of the movement spurred fierce polemics in the Italian literary world: they were accused of being "irrational formalists", dangerous Marxist revolutionaries, "late Futurists

Futurism

Futurism was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century.Futurism or futurist may refer to:* Afrofuturism, an African-American and African diaspora subculture* Cubo-Futurism* Ego-Futurism...

", "a vanguard of the rearguard", or the creators of a "renewed Arcadia

Arcadia

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