CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN LITERATURE

The course aims to provide a general frame of the 20^th century Italian literature, focusing on the more representative authors and texts. A specific analysis will be dedicated to the libraries and archives and of 19^th and 20^th century Italian writers.

A The 20^th century Italian literature. (4 CFU)

General outlines of the history of the 20^th century Italian Literature, focusing on the following authors: Gozzano, Tozzi, Svevo, Pirandello, Saba, Ungaretti, Montale, Quasimodo, Pavese, Vittorini, Primo Levi, Brancati, Calvino, Gadda, Tomasi di Lampedusa, Luzi, Caproni, Sereni, Pasolini, Sciascia.

B The literary archives and the libraries of the Italian writers: Verga (2 CFU).

A

- A. Casadei – M. Santagata, Manuale di letteratura italiana contemporanea, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2007, pp. 5-27, 51-220, 231-291, 305-326, 333-374, 390-392.

- The student will choose at least one hundred pieces extracted from the works of the writers specified in A (the photocopies of these texts will be given by the teacher).

B

- M. Trevisan, Gli archivi letterari, Roma, Carocci, 2009, pp. 7-62;

- G. Verga, I Malavoglia, a cura di F. Cecco, Torino, Einaudi, 1995, pp. VII-XLV, 3-373.

- G. Flaubert, Tre racconti (Garzanti or Feltrinelli), pp. 140;

- L. Fava Guzzetta, Verga tra Manzoni e Flaubert, Roma, Studium, 1997, pp. 63-106 (photocopies).