Etica e pensiero forte nella letteratura italiana contemporanea

In the 2000s the role of ethics in literature has gained importance in the italian cultural debate. While in the nineties but also throughout the postmodernism, what Vattimo called “weak thought” was prevalent (both in the metaphysical and sociological field), in the following decades weak thought became strong and dominant in some cultural fields. Literature has therefore attributed ever greater importance to the so-called ethics, has turned to politically correct themes, reading texts as moral manifestos that bring together authors and readers. This essay deals with some exemplary cases – Veronesi vs Tondelli, Marzano vs Siti – starting from an archetypal and alternative model: Cotzee’s Disgrace.