TEDDY BOYS E GIOVANI CANNIBALI FRA ALIENAZIONE E VIOLENZA: IL CASO “BASTOGNE” DI ENRICO BRIZZI

The phenomenon of the Teddy Boys, rooted in America and England, also developed in many Italian cities. Violence and youth alienation were later depicted in the 1990s by the Young Cannibals movement, which made it the emblem of a new Italian narrative, more adherent to reality. The novel Bastogne by Enrico Brizzi is the symbol of this way of portraying youth, with roots in the underground counterculture of the 1970s, in magazines like Il Male, and in the comic works of Andrea Pazienza. The phenomenon also finds significant references in A Clockwork Orange, the book by Anthony Burgess and the film by Stanley Kubrick, as well as in the novels of Pier Vittorio Tondelli. Pier Paolo Pasolini, in an article for Vie Nuove, reflected on how Teddy Boys were a typical phenomenon of Anglo-Saxon Protestant society, suggesting that alienated young thugs reacted with their own physical violence to the moral violence perpetrated by their fathers and elder brothers, who were professionals (lawyers, entrepreneurs, managers, etc.), representatives of a hypocritical and unjust society.