Contemporary literature at school. A project to recover the last fifty years, major absentees in the programs carried out

Abstract

Among the teaching priorities is the recovery of a great absence, the discussion of the recent fifty years of literature. The canon and the readings often stop at moderns, such as Montale and Svevo; sometimes we arrive at the second postwar period; the lucky ones deal systematically with literature up to Calvino, Sciascia, Pasolini. But fifty years have passed since the decades of the seventies and eighties of the last century: two generations. The project presented in the contribution aimed to address these issues and was composed of training courses for teachers, classroom practices, editorial products.