The paper reviews the main critical contributions that have appeared in scientific journals, conference proceedings, monographs on Luigi Capuana from the 1970s to today. Traditionally linked to his friend Giovanni Verga, the writer of Mineo builds a career as a short story writer and as a theatrical and literary critic, intertwining interests aimed at the investigation of reality with theoretical reflections on art and its expressive tools, always projecting himself beyond the national border to scientific and cultural interests. Alongside the studies on the specificity of the storyteller and the experimenter of narrative techniques, very widespread since the 1970s, in recent decades also as a result of postcolonial studies, the attention of critics has turned to investigate the conservative and classist ideology of the writer. by Mineo which contrasts, at least in part, with his poetic experimentalism and with his indefatigable interest in French technique and positive medicine. On the postcolonial studies front, therefore, come the most original and innovative studies that try to re-read a part of the critical prose and narrative production (Le Paesane, for example), and to situate the writer in the composite and complex framework of the Italian post-unification Risorgimento process. .

L’articolo passa in rassegna i principali contributi critici apparsi in riviste scientifiche, atti di convegno, monografie su Luigi Capuana dagli anni Settanta del Novecento a oggi. Tradizionalmente legato all’amico Giovanni Verga, lo scrittore di Mineo costruisce la carriera di novelliere e di critico teatrale e letterario, intrecciando interessi rivolti all’indagine della realtà a riflessioni teoriche sull’arte e i suoi strumenti espressivi, proiettandosi sempre oltre il confine nazionale per interessi scientifici e culturali. Accanto agli studi sulla specificità del novelliere e dello sperimentatore di tecniche narrative, molto diffusi a partire dagli anni Settanta, negli ultimi decenni anche per effetto dei postcolonial studies, l’attenzione dei critici si è rivolta a indagare l’ideologia conservatrice e classista dello scrittore di Mineo che contrasta, almeno in parte, con il suo sperimentalismo poetico e con il suo indefesso interesse nei confronti della tecnica e della medicina positiva francese. Sul fronte dei postcolonial studies, dunque, provengono gli studi più originali e innovativi che provano a rileggere una parte delle prose critiche e della produzione narrativa (Le Paesane, per esempio), e a situare lo scrittore nel quadro composito e complesso del processo risorgimentale postunitario italiano.

CARTA, A. (2021). Il punto degli studi sull’opera critica di Luigi Capuana (2015-2021). ANNALI DELLA FONDAZIONE VERGA(14), 49-64.

Il punto degli studi sull’opera critica di Luigi Capuana (2015-2021)

CARTA, A
2021-01-01

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The paper reviews the main critical contributions that have appeared in scientific journals, conference proceedings, monographs on Luigi Capuana from the 1970s to today. Traditionally linked to his friend Giovanni Verga, the writer of Mineo builds a career as a short story writer and as a theatrical and literary critic, intertwining interests aimed at the investigation of reality with theoretical reflections on art and its expressive tools, always projecting himself beyond the national border to scientific and cultural interests. Alongside the studies on the specificity of the storyteller and the experimenter of narrative techniques, very widespread since the 1970s, in recent decades also as a result of postcolonial studies, the attention of critics has turned to investigate the conservative and classist ideology of the writer. by Mineo which contrasts, at least in part, with his poetic experimentalism and with his indefatigable interest in French technique and positive medicine. On the postcolonial studies front, therefore, come the most original and innovative studies that try to re-read a part of the critical prose and narrative production (Le Paesane, for example), and to situate the writer in the composite and complex framework of the Italian post-unification Risorgimento process. .
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CARTA, A. (2021). Il punto degli studi sull’opera critica di Luigi Capuana (2015-2021). ANNALI DELLA FONDAZIONE VERGA(14), 49-64.
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