Dr Katrin Wehling-Girogi and Tiziana de Rogatis in Conversation with Allegoria

Traumatic realism and the poetics of trauma in the work of Elsa Morante

Elsa Morante’s History: A Novel is the great Italian novel of traumatic realism: extraordinary and prophetic since its release, and even more so after two traumatic years of Covid. In this conversation, Tiziana de Rogatis and Katrin Wehling-Giorgi resituate History: A Novel at the centre of the debate and we reread it through the unprecedented lens of Trauma Studies (the conversation is linked to their co-authored article on Morante, which can be accessed from the link below in English and in Italian, and which was published in Allegoria Issue no. 83).

We would like to thank Allegoria’s editorial team and the journal’s online section ‘Spazio aperto’, as well as Vincenzo Patricola from the publishing house Palumbo for his technical creativity. And a special thanks to Martina Pala for her wonderful translation into Italian of part of the article!