Russian Children’s Literature in Italy: Assessment and Prospects

Abstract

This article focuses on Russian children’s literature in Italy in the last 30 years. The first part provides a brief historical overview of Russian children’s literature in Italy starting from the 20th century. The aim is to identify the best-known authors and the first research dedicated to them in the field of Slavistics and pedagogy. The second part focuses on the presence of Russian children’s literature in Italy since the 1990s. The article accounts for both the critical studies on Russian children’s literature and the corpus of texts that have arrived in Italy in the form of translation, adaptation, or rewriting. Some constants are identified, but also important novelties are underlined: the short-lived fortune of certain genres, such as science fiction, and the appearance on the market of authors who are in between adult and children’s literature.

Keywords

• Letteratura russa per l'infanzia
• Classici russi
• Fiaba
• adattamento
• traduzione