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Progressione narrativa e climax nel "Critico d'arte" di Dino Buzzati
Buzzati’s brief tale Il critico d’arte (1956), whose main character impatiently
writes and rewrites his review of a painting exhibition, each time in a more obscure and
nonsensical language, has generally been interpreted as a mere parody of the pretentious
style of art critics. As a result, its narrative frame, characterised by a rhetorical crescendo
known in Buzzati’s terms as progressione, has often been neglected. Nevertheless, the
three drafts of the critic’s review scattered in the tale can itself be considered as part
of the narrative progression. As a matter of fact, the three versions build an expressive
climax, reproducing, on a microtextual level, the wider rhetorical crescendo of the tale