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The need to assess the fate of the avantgarde, the wish to make some sense of the most recent developments on the literary scene, and the effort to rethink the function of literary research and writing, have recently generated a series of interesting critical ex- changes in Italy.Under the auspices of the journals Alfabeta (Milan), and Acquario (Palermo), a symposium on "the meaning of literature" was held in Palermo in Noveniber 1984.The symposium (which included readings of unpublished literary texts) brought together some of the most important writers and critics active in Italy today to discuss the issues raised on the pages of Alfabeta and various other journals and newspapers in the context of what appears to be a renewed collective urge for clarification opposed to the atmosphere of intellectual dispersion and confusion of the 1970s and 1980s.Ex-members of the neo-Avanguardia, the Novissimi and the Gruppo 63, such as Sanguineti, Anceschi, Leonetti, Pagliarani, Porta, and Angelo Guglielmi took part in the debate, along with representatives of several different generations, creative orienta- tions, and critical tendencies, such as Stefano Agosti, Gian Carlo Ferretti, Giovanni Raboni, Enzo Cucchi, and Biancamaria Fra- botta.What prompted all these people to intervene directly or in- directly in the debate, and to participate in the Palermo symposium?Many participants expressed a feeling of "affectionate nostalgia" caused by the near-coincidence of this gathering with the twentieth anniversary of the Gruppo 63.Some of the most ar- dent opponents of the group, such as De Marco and Fortini, hoped on the other hand this would be the occasion for the group's "final and definitive entombment."The Gattopardo-like, "voluptuous immobility" of Palermo, and the setting of the sym- posium in the very same Hotel delle Palme where the first historic QUADERNI d'italianistica, Volume VII, No. 1, 1986
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