Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.31820/f.31.2.3
On Two Important Episodes of Antifuturism and Pseudo-futurism in Rijeka (Fiume)
Aljoša Pužar
orcid.org/0000-0002-5931-7577
; Fakulteta za družbene vede, Univerziteta v Ljubljani
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to amend and correct
previously published work that tackled Futurist and Futurism-related events in
Rijeka (Fiume). Based on the recent archival and bibliographic discoveries, the
paper proposes new textual and contextual analysis of an important pseudo-Futurist
manifesto created and published in Rijeka in 1914, and of Clementina
Scala-Bonetta’s anti-Futurist and pseudo-futurist poetry. The paper provides
basic descriptions of these two episodes, discusses their timeline, names the
protagonists, and offers basic analyses of the texts involved. Previously
unknown authorship of the Minerva Manifesto is partially resolved and presented
here. These two local episodes, framing the events of the Great War and of the
early post-war years, add an important dimension to the usual discussions about
Futurists whose activities pertain to the sixteen months of D’Annunzio’s rule over
the city (1919-1921). The analysis of local pseudo-Futurism and anti-Futurism
shows the overall level of reception of the Futurist movement, allows for the
speculation on the possible paths of the early and later engagements with the
movement, and explains political and social contexts. Special focus is placed
on the unexpected role of the political fraction of “Autonomists” (Moderates)
in the historical unfolding and in the contemporary evaluations of Futurism-related
and other avant-garde events in Rijeka (Fiume).
Keywords
Rijeka (Fiume); Futurism; anti-Futurism; pseudo-Futurism; Minerva Manifesto; Clementina Scala-Bonetta
Hrčak ID:
230842
URI
Publication date:
24.12.2019.
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