“Marcello come here”: quale industria per quale letteratura italiana? Emigrazione, precariato intellettuale, depressione

The aim of this article is to highlight some of the paradigm limitations with which the relationship between industry and literature in Italy, starting from Elio Vittorini onwards, has been conceived. By methodologically addressing all the main characters' stories of the industrial literature as life stories (especially that of Marcello in Bianciardi’s L’integrazione), the article draws out a series of extra-literary markers showing how this genre of narrative relies more on socio-economic factors such as emigration, precariousness, and depression than on strictly authorial poetics in which it is commonly ghettoised.