Un manifesto per la modernità: venti anni di Utopia e disincanto

The current essay aims to highlighting the importance of Magris’ Utopia e disincanto. year its first publication (1999) was a watershed moment in his career, as it paved way new season public engagement and historical analysis, which can be also seen later essays novels. Twenty years later, disincanto is still manifesto for modernity, deeply contemporary book where analytical view headed towards an idea universal literature, Weltliteratur that should tool understand changes mankind involved. Literature meant investigate dark sides hidden among folds History