Novecento scritturale

This study looks at the ways in which 20th-century literature has reworked the Bible, including writers such as Giovanni Pascoli, Giorgio Bsasani, Primo Levi, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Elsa Morante, and Giovanni Testori. 20th-century thinkers have used the Bible it to formulate major themes of the era: the violence necessary for revolution, the absence of God and the solitude of man, love and human solidarity, and the question of realism in art. This book also includes a discussion of the reworking of the Bible by 19th-century writers Giacomo Leopardi and Herman Melville, included as a prologue to and a foundation for 20th-century experience.