Marco Mancassola: Literature without Posterity

Abstract

Mancassola explores some critical issues relating to realist novels dealing with the Anthropocene and climate change. Starting with Amitav Ghosh’s essay on that theme, and with reference to a selection of contemporary Italian essays, novels, and other contributions, the author defends a form of writing which, to be truly credible, deals with the uncomfortable hyper-truths of the current climate change and does not limit itself to a fashionable use of a dismissive kind of autofiction.