Which Italian writer founded the magic realist magazine '900.Novecento' in 1926?

The Italian writer who founded the magic-realist magazine *900.Novecento* in 1926 was Massimo Bontempelli. He launched the publication with Curzio Malaparte in Rome under the fuller title *900*, or *Cahiers d’Italie et d’Europe*.

The magazine served as a platform for Italian literary modernism and Bontempelli’s theory of “magical realism,” which sought to reveal wonder, invention, and myth within modern everyday life. Its first issues were published in French and aimed at a cosmopolitan European readership, reflecting the journal’s interest in international culture rather than provincial Italian tradition.

The title is connected with the Novecento movement, although the magazine was not simply an art catalogue for the broader Novecento Italiano group. Its contributors and editors included internationally known figures such as James Joyce, Ramón Gómez de la Serna, and Pierre Mac Orlan. Publication continued until 1929. The common mix-up is crediting Malaparte alone: he was Bontempelli’s co-founder and early co-director, while Bontempelli was the central architect of the magazine’s literary program.