an Italian literary movement that developed after World War I. Massimo Bontempelli (Bontempelli, Massimo) 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 stracittà, 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.