Mapping Post-War Italian Literature: Boom and Aftermath (1956-1979)

An investigation of the effects of the Reconstruction period on Italian writers’ literary tellings of the social and economic metamorphosis of Italy.

In the aftermath of the Reconstruction era, immediately after the Second World War, Italy experienced an unprecedented phase of economic development, which transformed it from a traditionally agricultural and impoverished country into one of Europe’s most industrialized nations. The idea, treasured to this day by many Italians, that this perio...