I grandi scrittori del Novecento
The great writers of the twentieth century
Paola Veneziani
Transcript
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The twentieth century was an extraordinarily rich one for Italian literature.
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Italo Calvino reinvented the story with a unique philosophical lightness.
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Cesare Pavese and Natalia Ginzburg wrote about postwar Italy with a rare candour.
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Elsa Morante with La Storia painted the pain of ordinary people in the face of history.
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Primo Levi left us an indispensable testimony about the Holocaust.
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These authors shared a profound sense of civic responsibility.
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Literature was never mere entertainment for them.
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It was a tool for understanding and transforming the world.