2. Verità storica e finzione letteraria. Dai modelli della tradizione alle strategie narrative contemporanee

The question of the relationship between history and literature today returns to draw your attention in a phase in which the tendency of narrative seems to be to swallow up history with the consequent risk, long felt, of confusing the specificities of the two disciplines. A problem more current than ever considering the permeability of the boundaries between true and false, reality and fiction, which generally pervades the forms of contemporary communication. Within the literary horizon, the widespread phenomenon of narrative reconstructions of historical facts and news has led critics to introduce a typological differentiation that identifies a, not always clear, boundary between the genre of fiction and that of non-fiction. A distinction that recalls the vexed questions that have seen truth and fiction contrast in our culture in all those cases in which literary narration has wanted to tell History. The essay, after having reconstructed the nature and complexity of such an ancient question that still questions us today, reports on the contemporary panorama of the new Millennium, where the preference given to the historical genre is particularly evident and, although narrowing the focus on the case of narratives on the theme of resistance, identifies the specificity of this phenomenon and of the narrative strategies.