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Eugenio Montale

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.

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Eugenio Montale is saying that storytelling through novels, starting from the Japanese writer Murasaki to the French writer Proust, has created important and beautiful poetic works. He highlights that narrative writing itself can be a form of poetry, not just traditional verse.

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