- Carlo Della Corte e la scrittura di fantascienza

The first attempt of della Corte as a narrator, Pulsatilla sexuata (1962), is a collection of science fiction stories, in which irony and satire – the style adopted by the author – occur both in relation to the hegemony of the American cultural model and as a parody of contemporary and classical literary antecedents (Buzzati, but also Dante and d’Annunzio). According to della Corte a demystifying will is the only way to understand reality: in Pulsatilla sexuata he tests a linguistic register poised between irony and self-irony, a register he keeps throughout his literary career. In the later anthology Cronache dell’arcipelago (1996), a collection of science fiction short stories all set in Venice, of which Carlo della Corte isn’t only the editor but also the author of four pieces (Tetralogia veneziana), he confirms the possibility of an Italian approach to science fiction and his belief in the active role of literature in human knowledge.