Solaria (magazine)

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Solaria
Categories Literary magazine
FrequencyMonthly
PublisherEdizioni di Solaria
Founder
Founded1926
Final issue1936
Country Kingdom of Italy
Based in Florence
Language Italian

Solaria was a modernist literary magazine published in Florence, Italy, between 1926 and 1936. The title is a reference to the city of sun. [1] The magazine is known for its significant influence on young Italian writers. [2] It was one of the publications which contributed to the development of the concept of Europeanism. [3]

History and profile

Solaria was established in Florence in 1926. [4] [5] It was inspired from two magazines: La Voce and La Ronda . [6] The founders were Alessandro Bonsanti and Alberto Carocci. [4] Its publisher was Edizioni di Solaria, and the magazine was published on a monthly basis. [7] [8] As of 1929 Giansiro Ferrata served as the co-editor of the magazine. [9] Alessandro Bonsanti replaced him in the post in 1930 which he held until 1933. [9]

The major goal of Solaria was to Europeanize Italian culture and to emphasize the contributions of Italian modernist writers such as Svevo and Federigo Tozzi to the European modernism. [1] It adopted a modernist approach. [10] [11] The magazine had an anti-fascist stance. [12] Its contributors were mostly the short story writers. [7] They included Alberto Carocci, Eugenio Montale, Elio Vittorini, Carlo Emilio Gadda. [13] and Renato Poggioli. [14] The novel of Elio Vittorini, Il garofano rosso, was first published in the magazine. [15] The magazine also featured poems by young Italian artists, including Sandro Penna. [1] [16] Gianna Manzini published her first short stories in the magazine. [6] It also featured translations of modernist writers, including Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Marcel Proust, Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Kafka, and Thomas Mann. [11] Solaria was harshly criticized by other Italian literary circles and magazines, including Il Selvaggio , Il Bargello and Il Frontespizio , due to its frequent coverage of the work by Jewish writers. [17]

After producing a total of forty-one volumes Solaria ceased publication [7] [14] in 1936. [1] Its final issue was dated 1934, although it was published in 1936. [1] In fact, it was censored by the fascist authorities partly due to the serialization of Elio Vittorini's novel, Il garofano rosso, in the magazine. [1] [18]

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