Riflessioni sul canone della letteratura italiana nella prospettiva dell'insegnamento all'estero

The central issue of this dossier is the discussion upon the institutional crisis which characterizes Italian Literature, particulary in the XXth Century, and wich is accompanied by a fundamental obscurity in the italian literary language. The proposals to react against such a crisis are: 1. the opportunity to invert the chronological progression, in order to move from a modern and contemporary standpoint; 2. a flexible canon which should reflect the interests of the younger generations, and at the same time should keep into consideration the historicity of the phenomena, rejecting any kind of fashionable and banal simplification. The authors unanimously proposed as an essential part of a canon valid as much for Italy as for abroad, are: Dante, Boccace, Ariosto, Leopardi followed by Petrarch, Manzoni, Verga, Pirandello, Svevo, Calvino.