A nova narrativa italiana um autor, um símbolo: Pier Vittorio Tondelli

Abstract

In the Italian literature of the 80’s a series of authors produced texts classified by the criticism as a new Italian narrative. Pier Vittorio Tondelli, who wrote novels, short stories, narratives, essays and plays during the whole decade, became an icon-author of that period, writing about themes inherent to a postmodern reality and specially linked to certain young experiences of the late 70’s until the early 90’s. Living as a moving man, with his acute sense of observation, his writing, his style, his rhythm and his forte sentire, he became a symbol of that new generation of writers, which developed an important renovation of the Italian literature, setting it free from the impasse which conditioned it: the difficult reading of the neovanguard and experimental narrative, the lack of denseness of mass literature, the obviousness of realistic literature - which the new writers appraised a lot anyway.