Places often reflect the traveler's soul. They vary with those who travel
them. Marquette's diary mixes religious sensibility, the taste of the
marvelous, of rice and a certain science of the world, which lead him to
write down relevant but fleeting details. In essence, more than a
container for the representation of the religious, historical and
geographical dimension of these unknown lands, the diary becomes
above all an instrument to orient itself in the time of daily life.
The second half of the nineteenth century was a period of great cultural
fervor that marked all the subsequent avant-garde trends. In this context
of fervor and revolution fits Germain Nouveau not only because it is
linked to friendship with Rimbaud, Verlaine, Mallarmé, Richepin and
others but above all because with his works he contributed, with a vein of
originality and spirit of rebellion, to birth of modern poetry.

The intellectual figure of André Suarès stands as an exemplary representative of a generation that lived a good part of the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century, due to the concerns of life and literary interests, aimed at understanding political and religious problems, aesthetic and moral of their time.

During his stay abroad, D'Annunzio gave a French voice to some of his works, in an alternative controversy to the predominance of Germanic, Russian and Scandinavian culture.

After closing the cycle of novels, Gracq has opened a new chapter of
literary production, based mainly on fragmentary notes or writings. From that moment on the new model of writing, that is the text or very short,
was used almost exclusively to describe physical and literary places.
Diaries and chronicles that today I can be side by side - each with its own
perspective and narrative cut - to the photographs of Henri Cartier-
Bresson.
The argumentative structure of Autour des sept collines replaces the
historiographical science with the values and illusions of surrealist poetry.
In this work, it prevails, rather it literally "dominates" the description to
the negative, the comparison that diminishes, which repeatedly
denigrates. What Gracq says about the Romans is one of those points in
the book that perplex. Not so much because of the negativity of
judgment, which is debatable of which one can always discuss, but
because of its trivial argumentative inconsistency, which seems more
than anything else to appeal to a burden of commonplaces. This aspect
of "Autour des septs collines" contrasts with the elegance of style.

The International Novatrice Infinitesimale, contrary to what happened to the
movements after the great historical avant-garde, not only manages to
gradually and brilliantly overcome its initial phases, but substantiates the
movement as the fourth avant-garde after Futurism, Dadaism and
Surrealism. The reason lies in the awareness that if you intend to
overturn culture, the revolution must be innovative and permanent: not a
revolution as a change in research, the art of non-sense or subversive
ideological attitude, but a revolution as innovation of knowledge and
abolition of the operating sectors.