Realism and ilusion: a crusade against artifice

Abstract

The mediation gap, i.e., the multiplication of invisible tools which are interposed between the public and the facts as a result of the advance of the communication technologies, has helped to expand, in the market of cultural assets, a narrative which seems to spontaneously reflect scenes of an “authentic reality”. From here on, the text discusses the crisis of fiction and the new “realisms”, inquiring which parameters are used nowadays to classify a text as being realist.