Intervista a Simonetta Sanna (I). La letteratura come esercizio di umanità

Abstract

In questo numero di Materiali di Estetica presentiamo la prima parte di un'intervista in cui la germanista Simonetta Sanna espone la sua idea di letteratura come esercizio in cui gli esseri umani possono cogliere l'opportunità di confrontarsi con i valori che hanno sempre affermato di perseguire: la tolleranza, la capacità di riconoscere le proprie parti scisse proiettate sull'Altro vissuto come nemico, gli affetti negativi, il narcisismo delle piccole differenze, l'autoindulgenza, ecc. La passione di Simonetta Sanna per la conoscenza, evidente in tutta la sua opera, si misura con la grande letteratura: da Lessing a Kafka, da Büchner a Keilson, da Döblin a Jung e agli scrittori contemporanei. La sua indagine solleva sempre nuove domande, alle quali la letteratura risponde con ulteriori interrogativi che ci aiutano a interpretare gli attuali sconvolgimenti in Europa e in Occidente con una prospettiva che evita il consenso e il conformismo: un atteggiamento appreso dagli autori ai quali Sanna ha dedicato e continua a dedicare una vita di studio.

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Authors: Rosalba Maletta iD ORCID 0000-0003-3174-606X (University of Milan)
Published in: Materiali di Estetica Terza serie, vol. 12, no. 2
Publication date:04/02/2026
Publisher:University of Milan
Document type:Article
Language:Italian
DOI: 10.54103/mde.i12.2.30838
ISSN:2283-558X
Open access: Open access Diamond: open journal with no fees for authors or readers – Materiali di Estetica Terza serie (license: CC-BY-SA, published version)
Subjects:
German Literature and Culture Studies (Social Sciences > Arts and Humanities > Literature and Literary Theory)
German legal, social, and political studies (Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Sociology and Political Science)
Literary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics (Social Sciences > Arts and Humanities > Literature and Literary Theory)
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