Zurück zum Realen

Tendenzen in der italienischen Gegenwartsliteratur

By (author) Christiane Conrad von Heydendorff Consultant editor Mechthild Dreyer

Book cover: Zurück zum Realen

Extent: 450 pages

Publisher: V&R unipress

Subjects: Literary Studies

Series: Romanica

Language: German

Hardback (Published)

(December 2017)

ISBN: 9783847107934

6.34 x 9.33 inches

Price: $99.00

In stock

Der gegenwartige Buchmarkt Italiens ist mit einem einzigen Diskurs, namlich dem postmodernistischen, nicht mehr zu erfassen. Die Autorin beschaftigt sich mit Tendenzen realistischer Literatur, das heisst ernster Literatur, die sich erneut manifestieren.


Reference to a single discourse – that of postmodernism – no longer suffices as a means to sum up the contemporary Italian book market. Rather, we see a renewed tendency towards literary realism, that is to say ‘serious’ literature that aspires to represent and criticize a current extratextual world by narrating factual events or plausible occurrences. However, realistic literature is literature nonetheless and, by that token, art; it can take on metaphorical, symbolist or self-referential character in order to optimise strategies of depiction, achieve new insights or give voice to poetological problems. This study analyses the different manifestations of these tendencies on the basis of examples drawn from the works of Ammaniti, Desiati and Saviano.

  • By (author) Christiane Conrad von Heydendorff
  • Consultant editor Mechthild Dreyer