Luca Bevilacqua is Associate professor of French literature at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. Specialist of poetry of the nineteenth-twentieth century and in particular of Mallarmé, of which he edited the edition of the Poems (Marsilio, 2017). He also worked on Baudelaire, Henri Michaux (The furious creation. Michaux and the anti-literature, Pacini, 2012), Apollinaire, Char and Bonnefoy. He is interested in French fiction of the extreme contemporary and has written essays on François Bon, Jean Rouaud, Emmanuel Carrère, Yasmina Reza and Michel Houellebecq. His latest work is Mots manquants. L’inachevé dans l’œuvre de Mallarmé (Tab editions, 2022).