Tardo stile e conoscenza. Sulle ultime poesie di Rainer Maria Rilke

After discussing the conceptual consistency of “late style” with reference to Adorno’s and Derrida’s philosophy, the article aims at disclosing how Rilke’s late poems seem to move away from the ductus which characterized their poetic structure. While Rilke’s style, thanks to its Nietzschean origin and consistency, was especially concerned with the creation of metaphors evoking a meaning which was supposed to be absent, his poems written in the last decade before his death show his late style developing an unprecedented rhetoric of the presence.