Erotismo e seduzione tra Avanguardia e Neoavanguardia. Dall’esaltazione della mascolinità alla critica ideologica

The intention of this essay is to discuss eroticism within first the Avant-garde and then the Neo-avant-garde as a possible propagandistic function on the one hand, and a critical-ideological one on the other. For the historical Avant-garde, we will reflect on the way masculinity appears when it is represented within certain Futurist works written in collaboration: the idea is to compare, in particular, two works written by Marinetti with Corra, in which an all-encompassing masculinity is outlined. We will analyse, on the one hand, Come si seducono le donne (1916), dictated by Marinetti to his friend Corra, and and on the other, L’isola dei baci. Romanzo erotico-sociale (1918), written together by the two: in both texts, the erotic and sensual dimension becomes the vehicle of a macho virility, which becomes an instrument of social and cultural propaganda. Marinetti and Corra thus write two texts that are both erotic and social, enriching the narrative fabric with theoretical meanings and incorporating ideological content in support of the movement. For the Neo-Avantgarde, the presence of eroticism as a bodily dimension is investigated in some works by Malerba and Manganelli, as well as in Pelle d’Asino by Giuliani and Pagliarani (1964).