Nuovi Argomenti

Nuovi Argomenti is an influential Italian literary magazine, founded in 1953 by Alberto Carocci and Alberto Moravia. A short time later, Pier Paolo Pasolini joined the editorial team, after his death led Attilio Bertolucci and Carroccis and Enzo Siciliano continued the work.

The orientation of the journal was initially strictly Marxist; in the first edition appeared, inter alia, an introduction by Georg Lukács in the äshetischen writings of Marx and Engels. In the publications was reluctant to even non-political confrontations. So risking the author Franco Cagnetta, the manuscript of which was printed on the bandit village Orgosolo only Nuovi Argomenti long trial.

Mid-1960s, the political and ideological orientation in favor of a purely literary orientation was abandoned. Numerous recent Italian authors began their careers with author publications in the Nuovi Argomenti.

Since 1998, the magazine is published quarterly by Mondadori. Issuer is since Enzo Sicilianos Dacia Maraini death in 2006. The divestment is by publishing information on average 2,000 copies.