L’onda e la sponda. La poetica dello «sguardo cittadino» e "Lacustre" di George Bacovia

The aim of this paper is to analyse the poetics of space of George Bacovia (1881-1956) in relation to the “homeless” mind-set characteristic of modernity and to the modern(ist) feeling of «dislocation» as a dysphoric yet inescapable «belonging» to one’s own time and space. Bacovia’s poetics is investigated in terms of a “urban gaze” constructed through a two-pronged use of the “city” as a literary device: (i) as the quintessential “point of view” of/on modern civilization; (ii) as the most suitable “language” for communicating the peculiar feeling of spatial location of modern man. The article concludes with an interpretation of Lacustră [Lacustrine] (1900-1916) as an exemplary illustration of Bacovia’s own modern(ist) sense of place and time.