I've decided to start learning Italian for Italian literature
Who are the most important authors to read?
I enjoy Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco especially the leftist elements since I'm a socialist/communist
I'm most looking forward to reading D'Annunzio and doing a deep dive in Calvino's works
How difficult is it to read pre-modern Italian literature?

btw I'm trans if that matters

>>24531395
Very funny

>>24531388 (OP)
I'm italian but I'm not really into modern italian authors, some of Moravia's stuff is good, same with Pasolini. Thing is, most 20th Century italian lit is commie gobbledygook so a retard tranny like you will enjoy it. Going back to medieval lit, I think you need a lot of years of study to be able to read it. If you wanna get into Dante, Petrarca, Boccaccio, Leopardi and such you are better off reading translations with a companion or some good notes.

>>24531459
Not medieval, I meant prior to 20th century

>>24531467
>prior to 20th century
Not very difficult, at least compared to 20th century lit
Not because the language has not changed, but rather because language in literature hasn't changed. Writing in italy has pretty much always been the prerogative of the well off and cultured at least until ww2 and even after that for a huge chunk, and authors would generally build on what came before them
The tricky part is that before the betrothed, which is the founding text of modern Italy, the novel was for the most part considered an unserious format with a few exceptions here and there, so before that the important texts you will encounter will be assays and treatises, history, and most importantly of all poetry, so you will find your knowledge lacking the further back you go and explore
Personally I much prefer 20th century lit since it is the only period you will find some experimentation and something different from what I grew up surrounded by (history and poetry)
Chi ha il pane non ha i denti

>>24531508
>something different from what I grew up surrounded by (history and poetry)
Yeah I get it, Last month I was reading Faust and I told a german girl I met and her reaction was akin to ptsd, she hated Goethe because it's too hammered in during school years, while for me reading Goethe is fantastic and fresh in a way.

>>24531388 (OP)
Guido Morselli

Read Pirandello, start with ''Uno Nessuno e Centomila'', another book I love is ''Il Sergente nella Neve' by Mario Rigoni Stern, but it's not fiction, it's a war memoir by an Italian soldier on the eastern front

>>24531388 (OP)
Frankly, I've found Gabe Announcement's stint as the dictator-mayor of Fiume more entertaining than his writing.
I mean, being functionally besieged and still partying with enough flowers thrown around that the florists run dry time and again? Better than mere flowery language.