"Ho scritto quello che ho visto". La poetica di Grossman e il problema delle verità.

«I WROTE WHAT I SAW». Grossman’s poetics and the issue of truths This thesis aims to explain the poetic and the conceptual path of Vasily Grossman (1905-1964), in particular focusing on meeting and breaking points with the «Soviet paradigm» of his times. Along a path, which starts from the writer’s official debut in the early Thirties and concludes with the writing of the first and the second part of the «dilogy of Stalingrad» (Za pravoe delo, 1952; Žizn’ i sud’ba, published in 1980 after author’s death), the thesis highlights some of the most important turning points of Grossman’s artistic production. These points underline a specific characteristic of his literary activity: the tension between official Soviet literature borders throughout different stages of its development and Grossman’s individual needs of intellectual and artistic emancipation. The thesis develops a literary analysis of topics and themes of some Grossman’s works in relation with several archive documents, some of which are not yet published. This path shows the strained relationship between the author and official institutions and their influence on Grossman’s artistic elaboration, i.e. on his attempt to define a specific personal mytho-poetic space. The main issue, that runs under the entire research work, is the relationship between the first and the second Grossman, that is the relationship between the author’s works which were published in Soviet Union and the works which were censured and published after his death. The thesis, composed of three parts, demonstrates that in Grossman’s poetics lie two truths: on the one hand, the «exterior» or «official» truth, and on the other hand the «individual» one. The aim of this thesis is to show the peculiarity of Vasily Grossman’s poetics and the progress of the category of truth that is considered as the roots of his work. Therefore, this thesis can be considered a critique of the figures of the truth in Grossman’s poetics.