STRACITT

an Italian literary movement that developed after World War I. Massimo Bontempelli was the leader of the movement, which was connected with his idea of novecentismo. Bontempelli called for a break from traditional styles of writing, and his own writings reflected his interest in such modern forms as Surrealism and magic realism. The name stracitt, a type of back-formation from the word stracittadino (ultra-urban), was meant to emphasize the movement's adherence to general trends in European literature, in opposition to strapaese (from strapaesano [ultra-local])collectively, those authors who followed nationalist and regionalist trends.