My research focuses on twentieth-century Italian literature, especially its intersections with philosophy, psychoanalysis, and anthropology. I investigate how literary texts absorb and transform conceptual frameworks from other disciplines, translating them into narrative and symbolic forms.
A central strand of my work concerns the notions of origin and the “primordial” in literary and artistic representations between the early and mid-twentieth century, with particular attention to cultural transformations and their impact on modern imagination. I have also explored the reception and rewriting of the sacred in twentieth-century literature, focusing on its mythical and anthropological dimensions in authors such as Carlo Levi and Cesare Pavese.
Further research interests include the history of twentieth-century Italian prose, the relationship between literature and the visual arts, and the forms of realism from the postwar period to the rise of neorealism.
