"Baldus": a post-rema magazine between avant-garde and tradition

"Baldus" is a a literary journal founded in 1990 by Mariano Baino, Biagio Cepollaro and Lello Voce that aims to promote a recovery of the critical role of-literature, in opposition to the 'literary ebb' inherited from the previous decade. This article traces the history of the journal until the its end in 1996, analysing the editorial line and highlighting the impact of the issues posed by Baldus on the literary debate of the nineties. In particular, the proposal of a poetry based on a strong linguistic contamination, in reaction to the flow of mass communication, together with the notion of 'Critical postmodernism', make the role of Baldus decisive in the history of the Group 93, a sort of flag that indicates the latest developments of the twentieth century experimental poetry. The reflection conducted by Barclus on Postmodernity is linked to a rethinkin,;-, of the literary tradition that leads on tae one hand to the re-evaluation of some marginal areas of experimentalism of the Sixties, on the other to the recovery of a literature, far more distant in time, which makes the 'distortion' of the language its cornerstone and which indicates the reference to the work of Folengo which gives the title to the journal. Starting from Bachtin's theory, the pages of the magazine become a development dground for an open dialectic between traition and avant-garde, which feeds the project of a literature of resistance to the eternal present' and which takes on full topicality in the age when the meaning of both notions tends to dissolve.