Michael Strunge. Il romanticismo postmoderno di un cantore danese della fantascienza urbana

[Autom. eng. transl.] Strunge: Tired of the prosaic realism that in the seventies had marked Danish literature in a period saturated with political and social commitment, the then twenty year old Strunge paved the way for a postmodern romanticism whose essential figure is poetic, not political anymore. As in the history of rock, the electropop almost paradoxically supported the British New Romantic movement, in Strunge the nocturnal poetics of the postmodern neon illuminated metropolis, presents themes linked to an urban space that merges with the intimate spaces of the human body, yes it feeds on symbolist suggestions that have their most authentic roots in Rimbaud and Baudelaire. Because «the real change», says Strunge - who said he saw the history of literature as «a single large supermarket where to take what we need» - consists in «using with taste in new eras what for a long time has been abandoned". Why the «anarchist chameleon» Strunge was not only a poet, but also an essayist and reviewer, a ferocious critic of the contemporaries «older graduate poets», Kristen Bjornkjær and Lola Baidel, whose poetry he defined without hesitation or reverential fears «parlor chat »,« Cheap poem ».