Giovanni Maffei

Giovanni Maffei teaches Italian literature and Contemporary italian literature at University of Naples Federico II, where he taught Criticism history and Literature theory.  During the past years, he focused on Italian and European narrative between XIX and XX century, on humoristic works and realistic poetry. At the moment he has a strong interest in narratological theories from the latest decades in France, Germany, Grat Britaind, USA, and he is trying to link their analitical intruments to out traditions. He cured two commented  editions: Vittorio Pica, Lettere a Federico De Roberto (Biblioteca della Fondazione Verga, 1996); Giovanni Rajberti, L’arte di convitare (Salerno Editrice, 2001). His most recent works are: Nievo (Salerno Editrice, 2012), Le apocalissi difficili. De Roberto, Vittorini, Pomilio, Frasca (Salerno Editrice, 2017), La passione del metodo. Le teorie, le poetiche e le narrazioni di Federico De Roberto (Franco Cesati Editore, 2017).