Abstract
Rosso: The contemporary debate on literature (especially in the United States, but recently in Italy as well) revolves increasingly around the terms modern'' and postmodern. There have been numerous attempts to define the term postmodern' as a movement which historically succeeds as a belated modernism, as a polarity which has always been present in the internal struggles of culture, as the adjective par excellence to describe our contemporary condition, etc. What is your understanding of this term and where do you place your criticism and your recent novel (// nome della rosa)2 in this spectrum of definitions? Do you think there are relationships among the ways in which the term postmodern is used in the areas of 1) architecture (Paolo Portoghesi, Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and others); 2) the philosophical, aesthetic and sociological debate which has developed most recently in Italy; and 3) literary postmodernism and narrative theory in the United States?
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