The text examines some social and labourist fiction books released between 2006 and 2022, from the historical novel to autobiographical writing together with a collective writing workshop. The analysis traces the characterizing and salient themes trying to understand what type of work is described in these books, what is the spirit of the time they express and the characteristic recurring themes. What emerges is a vision of labour that strongly claims the historicity and existence of the working classes, in a society where their presence and their imagination is mostly denied, marked by the themes of fatigue, fragmentation, which struggles to find an expression in a positive sense for work in the 21st century, without renouncing the search for it.
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Chapter Title
Sudate carte. Uno sguardo alla letteratura del lavoro
Authors
Stefano Bartolini
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7.174
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Book Title
Idee di lavoro e di ozio per la nostra civiltà
Editors
Giovanni Mari, Francesco Ammannati, Stefano Brogi, Tiziana Faitini, Arianna Fermani, Francesco Seghezzi, Annalisa Tonarelli
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
1894
Publication Year
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0245-9
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0319-7
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0320-3
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
Series E-ISSN
2704-5919