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I biplani di d'Annunzio by Luca Masali6/25/2023 After the economic boom, with the escalation of the Cold War and the Years of Lead, the “victory” of existentialism over idealism, Italian literature found a new way to express the issues related to the "uncanny" through the “purely fantastic,” but with few concessions to Sci-Fi. The only Science Fiction "allowed" was the foreign one, which was, however, still considered a minor genre. The progressive politicization of the literary salons and the new cultural elite decreed the ultimate death of Fantascienza. After the war country's reconstruction Italy became an industrial power and the literature began to recount the horrors of war and the partisan resistance, choosing, as did cinema, a (neo)realist approach. Italy, until the end of World War II, was a rural country, literature was produced almost exclusively within the cultured ruling class and was almost always oriented towards introspective fiction or realism. This gap between definitions pigeonholed this literary genre with the status of children's or pulp fiction. by Jadel Andreetto Science Fiction is translated with the word “Fantascienza” a fusion of science and fantasy. THE ITALIAN (Milky)WAY TO SCIENCE FICTION Abstract of the paper read at the 2013 Global Science Fiction" symposium at Wellesley College", Boston, USA.
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