In Search of the Great European (and Italian) Novel

Americans understand this well: that while labels may be an inconvenience, they often prove effective. Proof of this is the publishing success of the "great American novel" - the coveted achievement that many authors across the Atlantic aspire to write and that readers (and critics) around the world eagerly anticipate. What if something like that were needed in the Old Continent, perhaps in Italy? Writer (and keen observer of the publishing world) Vincenzo Latronico, journalist and essayist Maike Albath and Germanist and German-Italian cultural transfer expert Maria Carolina Foi.