Marguerite Caetani, Patron and Cosmopolitan Intellectual: the reviews “Commerce” and “Botteghe Oscure”

  • Paolo Tamassia University of Trento
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i4.7507
Keywords: Caetani, Commerce, Botteghe Oscure, patronage, literary reviews

Abstract

Marguerite Caetani founded and directed two of the most important literary magazines of the 20th century: Commerce and Botteghe Oscure. This article proposes to consider the original role played by Marguerite Caetani in these two cultural enterprises. If she could appear a figure of traditional patron, a closer look shows that she embodies a new figure of intellectual through patronage. Her double position in magazines, erasure (her name never appears) and presence (she has the last word in editorial choices), allows the constitution of a cultural space totally sheltered from any external injunction, free from all currents, schools, clans.

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Author Biography

Paolo Tamassia, University of Trento

 

Paolo Tamassia teaches French Literature at the University of Trento where he directs a literary translation laboratory (LETRA Seminario di traduzione letteraria).
He is a specialist in French literature of the 20th century: his research focuses in particular on the relationships between literature and politics (Sartre, Bataille, Blanchot, Foucault) and between poetry and philosophy (Char) and on the contemporary French novel (Bergounioux, Bon, Carrère, Houellebecq, Michon, Nadaud).
Among his works: Politiche della scrittura. Sartre nel dibattito francese del Novecento su letteratura e politica, Franco Angeli, 2000; Romanzo e società, in Il romanzo francese contemporaneo, a cura di G. Rubino, Laterza, 2012; Il Novecento, in Storia europea della letteratura francese, a cura di L. Sozzi, Einaudi, 2013.

Published
2020-12-21
How to Cite
TamassiaP. (2020). Marguerite Caetani, Patron and Cosmopolitan Intellectual: the reviews “Commerce” and “Botteghe Oscure”. SigMa - Rivista Di Letterature Comparate, Teatro E Arti Dello Spettacolo, (4), 773-791. https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i4.7507
Issue
No 4 (2020): The representation of the Cold war in literature and the arts (1947-1989)
Section
Varia

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