Canone, mediazione e ideologia nella fase di consolidamento del Ventennio fascista: la letteratura italiana (1930–1936) nella stampa culturale romena
Canon, Mediation, and Ideology in the Consolidation Phase of the Fascist Ventennio: Italian Literature (1930–1936) in the Romanian Cultural Press

Summary/Abstract: This study examines the reception and selective representation of Italian literature in Romanian cultural periodicals from 1930 to 1936, a period characterized by the consolidation of Fascism in Italy and political radicalization in Romania. Examining reviews, critical essays, and literary analyses reveals how Romanian critics filtered and reinterpreted Italian texts according to aesthetic, comparative, and local ideological criteria. Classical authors like Dante, Boccaccio, and Verga were valorized as symbols of literary continuity, while contemporary figures were assessed for both formal innovation and political alignment. D’Annunzio and Pirandello were often depoliticized or read in universalist terms, whereas Marinetti was largely framed as a political phenomenon. Antifascist or ideologically ambiguous authors, including Sibilla Aleramo, Corrado Alvaro, and Ignazio Silone, illustrate the selective, context-sensitive nature of reception. Quantitative analysis of periodical references reveals patterns of visibility, omission, and canonization, highlighting a Romanian-mediated “external canon” that diverged from the official Fascist model. The study argues that Romanian periodicals acted as independent mediating spaces, reshaping Italian literature as a site of aesthetic exploration and a lens for negotiating local cultural and ideological concerns, producing a reception both European in scope and selectively local in inflection.

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