Contemporanea

The Contemporanea series emerges as a narrative and critical workshop designed to investigate the myriad facets of modernity, with a primary focus on the fiction of our time. While Colonnese’s historical collections look to the past with philological rigor, Contemporanea plunges its hands into the living – and often raw and contradictory – reality of the present day. These pages give voice to "frontier" writers such as Peppe Lanzetta, who skillfully transforms suburban hardship into visceral poetry, and the visionary pen of Michele Serio, who challenges genre boundaries between the grotesque and the noir. It serves as a compass for navigating the chaos of everyday life, consistently prioritizing literary quality and intellectual independence. To read a title from this series is to accept a challenge: to look at Naples (and the world) without filters, caught between wounded beauty and stubborn redemption.