A Collège de France coproduction - CNED - Doriane Films
Abstract
Alongside the traditional theoretical or historical question : " What is literature ? ", today a critical and political question is posed with greater urgency: " What can literature ? " What value do contemporary society and culture attribute to literature ? What purpose does serve? What role does play? " "My confidence in the future of literature," declared Calvino, "rests on the certainty that there are things that only literature can give us. " Is this still our credo ?
