The Average and the Excellent: Literary Possibilities and Cultural Ambiguities. Francesco Marroni Interviewed by Gloria Lauri-Lucente and Ivan Callus
Media şi excelenţa. Posibilităţi literare şi ambiguităţi culturale

Summary/Abstract: Francesco Marroni is an Italian literary critic and writer of fiction with a distinguished record as a scholar of Victorian and Edwardian Studies and further researching strengths in contemporary and comparative literature. In this interview with Gloria Lauri-Lucente and Ivan Callus he speaks about representations of mediocrity in humanist learning and philosophy and in English and Italian literature. He also reflects on mediocrity’s penetrative qualities within contemporary life and culture. A number of key writers and thinkers feature in this wide-ranging interview, among them Dante, Petrarch, Shakespeare, Locke, George Eliot, Trollope, Gissing, Dostoyevsky, Chekhov, James, Orwell, Svevo, Moravia, Calvino, Tabucchi, Manganelli and d’Arrigo.

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