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Abstract:

The second book of the final, fourth volume of “The History of Italian Literature” covers the period from the late 1910s to the 1990s. That period, usually called the Novecento in the history of Italian culture, was dramatic for Italy from historical point of view. In the field of culture, literature and art, those eighty years complete the long process of overcoming the complex of Italian provincialism and cultural backwardness as compared to the advanced countries of Europe. Italian Novecento literature actively interacts with global aesthetic experience of the 20th century, and the modernist tendencies that emerged at the end of the Ottocento period are developed. At the same time, Novecento literature, poetically reflecting the twentieth-century reality, did not reject the realist aesthetic paradigm rooted in tradition, but in a number of cases utilized it and refilled it with contemporary content. Completing the four-volume edition of “The History of Italian Literature”, the book about the literary situation of the Italian Novecento focuses the reader’s attention on how such major trends of the 20^th century as avant-garde and neo-avant-garde, realism and surrealism, hermeticism, modernism and postmodernism, and mass fiction, interacted with tradition, were assimilated and modified on the Italian literary soil.

Keywords: Italian Literature, Novecento, avant-garde, neo-avant-garde, realism, surrealism, hermeticism, modernism, postmodernism, mass fiction.