ABSTRACT
Edoardo Sanguineti's theoretical positions and creative undertakings are deeply entrenched in a Marxist view of the world. He shows an extraordinary intellectual ability in unifying under the historical materialism and the Marxist outlook all the fundamental problematics related to the status of art and literature in a capitalist society. He represented a culture of dissent with which the Italian literary and intellectual establishment was forced to come to terms. The debates and the disputes it generated are at the core of the critical reflections and of the creative expressions that marked the Italian cultural landscape of the second half of twentieth century. He remained faithful up to the end to a Marxist vision of the world, embodied in a poetics centred on the notion of a revolutionary praxis conducted within the territory of language. Indeed, Sanguineti identifies the true art of twentieth century with the techniques of montage, as pioneered by the early avant-garde cinema.
