The men who will return to colleges and universities after passing through the ordeal of a ghastly war will expect a more realistic approach in our presentation of literary history. Literary art is much more than experimenting with technique, and recasting in baroque forms the great works of the classics. Art is closely related to life, when it achieves genuine greatness. We need discrimination in dealing with Italian literature of yesterday and today.
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Domenico Vittorini (1944) studied this question.