La prosa della vita e la poesia nell’arte La resurrezione della parola

The movement known as “formalism”, announced by V. Šklovskij, in Voskrešenie slova (Resurrection of the word), is in relationship to other studies on artistic language. The movement emerges from an awareness of the collaborative interconnections between poetry and poetics. The focus in this paper is on the innovators of language, on those poets and artists of the Russian avant-garde who took a stand against the reduction of language to a communicative and representative function, and who promoted new ways of understanding the world.