Il "demonismo della forma" e il "trascendimento nel nulla". Ferruccio Masini legge Gottfried Benn

The essay ist divided into an introduction concerning Gottfried Benn's nihilism, into a second paragraph, in which is analysed the reason of Ferruccio Masini's priority interest for a late collection of poems of Gottfried Benn, Aprèlude (1955) - published in italian translation by the germanist 1963, - placed here in connection with the main points of the mature artist spelt out in the essay "Altern als Problem für Künstler" (1954); furthermore, into a following paragraph which concerns Benn's aesthetic mysticism, read using the interpretation of Ferruccio Masini and showing his insistence on the concept of "geometric-abstract perspective" in Benn's lyric poetry. In the last two paragraphs the circle of the argumentation is closed with some considerations concerning the translated and commented edition of the famous collection of Benn's early poems "Morgue" (1912). In Benn's reflections explicated by Masini the destructive power of the form and the meditation on violence are showed as indipendent from the conflict between the individual and the society. In a last paragraph it is possible to ascertain Masini's interest in the nihilism of the romantic german author Jean Paul, to whose horizont is defined Masini's thought developed on the relationship between god and man by means of Nietzsche's philosophy.