Intervista letteraria e forme brevi

In this paper, Giulia Cantarutti’s seminal research on short forms (kleine Formen, Kleine Prosa) is the theoretical-methodological starting point for describing characteristic traits of an ubiquitous, yet neglected genre: the literary interview. By arguing that the marginal attention granted by the literary studies to this research object is linked to the nature of the literary interview as a mixed and short form, the paper outlines specific research desiderata