A journey through the most important beginnings of Italian fiction of the last thirty years
Description
The first works contain within them the entire poetics of an author. Dear themes, idiosyncrasies, stylistic quirks. All condensed into a story deeply linked to the experience of whoever wrote it. They are pure, unconditioned by success or failure. They are books written by non-writers (if it is true that one becomes such only after publication), and for this reason they carry the romantic imaginary of aspirations with them. For this reason, analyzing the beginnings you can understand a lot of the state of health of the literary panorama of a country. Let’s look back and sum up the last thirty years of Italian first works.
Curriculum
- 5 Sections
- 5 Lessons
- Lifetime
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- 1 | The cannibal, the aesthete and the rejected90's. A decade of transition, which needs to distance itself from the past, and has great hopes for the future. There are three debuts which, due to their diversity and complementarity, best describe this decade: Gills by Niccolò Ammaniti, School of Nude by Walter Siti and Letters to no one by Antonio Moresco.1
- 2 | Nickel generation2000's. Independent publishing houses begin to replace the big publishers as forges of talent. In a panorama of change, a Roman publisher creates a series that will give so much to contemporary Italian literature, the Nickel series of Minimum Fax, which becomes an icon of an editorial moment and makes various protagonists of the future scene debut. But not only Minimum, small publishing becomes big and decides to want to imprint a new canon. We will analyze the beginnings of: Nicola Lagioia, Giorgio Falco, Francesco Pacifico and Giordano Tedoldi.1
- 3 | Indie generationThe 2010s. In Italian music it is said that the indie genre (a fake genre in truth) was born in 2010 with the debut album by I Cani. In the same years, Italian fiction went through its most intense indie phase. Powerful debuts, of great impact, often passed under the radar, but which have forged fundamental voices of our current panorama. Later canonized here, authors such as: Vanni Santoni, Laura Pugno, Claudia Durastanti and Alcide Pierantozzi began to take their first steps.1
- 4 | Outsiders generationYears 2015. Thanks to the particularly successful debuts from the commercial point of view of Paolo Giordano and Silvia Avallone, Italian publishing is desperately looking for first works. Many writers make their debut, but ironically this is perhaps the period in which quality is scarce. Among the proposals of major publishing there still seems to be great torpor, apart from very rare exceptions, even these remaining sporadic episodes. In the rear, however, three incendiary books make their way, which like few others manage to tell the contemporary and which are daring from a stylistic point of view. Of mythological creatures: Plasterboard by Francesco Maino, Therefore we look good in the photographs of Francesco Targhetta and From the ruins by Luciano Funetta.1
- 5 | State of the artAnd today's beginnings? What are the loudest voices right now? Which writers will remain and will we continue to read tomorrow? These are the hardest questions to answer. And it is inevitable that to try to make some names you need to bet. But if there were odds a few chips on the novels of Valentina Maini, Giovanni Bitetto, Claudia Petrucci, Andrea Donaera and Orso Tosco I would bet them without thinking twice. A new and very large generation of writers who have found themselves making their debut in a very complex period. Having to overcome multiple challenges, and perhaps precisely for this reason, forged by these difficulties, they have produced essential works.1
