LITERARY NEOREALISM, ITALO CALVINO

Neorealism [Da neo e realismo] is a literary current, born in 1930, based on a dramatization of the existential problem. After the Second World War, both in the artistic and in the cinematographic field he represented life in its most raw human aspects, without idealizations or aesthetic or literary embellishments. Among the main exponents we find: Primo Levi (documentary trend), Vasco Pratolini (chronicle with use of the Florentine dialect), Ignazio Silone (issues of social denunciation) and Italo Calvino (mythical-fairy tale). The neorealistic current expanded into art and cinema.

An important example of cinematic neorealism was the film Roma open city (1945) by R. Rossellini, shot immediately after the war which developed a direct approach to social problems, with a strong component of popular humanitarianism.

“Who is each of us if not a combinatorial of experiences, information, readings, imaginations? Every life is an encyclopedia, a library, an inventory of objects, a sample of styles, where everything can be continuously reshuffled and rearranged in all possible ways "

“ITALO CALVINO”

ITALO CALVINO

Born in Santiago de Las Vegas, Havana, Cuba (October 15, 1923) and died in Santa Maria della Scala, Siena (September 19, 1985).

"Maybe I will not do important things, but history is made up of small anonymous gestures, maybe tomorrow I will die, maybe before that German, but all the things I will do before I die and my death itself will be bits of history, and all thoughts what I'm doing now affect my history of tomorrow, tomorrow's history of mankind. "

“ITALO CALVINO”

The path of the spider's nests, the first novel written by Calvino in 1947, is narrated from the point of view of Pin, a child, the protagonist of the novel. The search for objectivity never ends in pure news: the mythical-fairytale dimension is always present that allows Calvino to glimpse reality under the guise of a dream.

He published over twenty books including the halved viscount (1956), baron ramante (1957), the non-existent knight (1959), cosmicomics (1965), invisible cities (1972) and American lessons (1984-1985).

AMERICAN LESSONS

In 1984 he was invited by Charles Eliot Norton at Harvard University to give a series of lectures (five in total) on the characteristics of literature through his point of view and it was he himself who gave a title to the five lectures: lightness, speed, accuracy, multiplicity and visibility. highlighted through their opposite (e.g. lightness-weight)