"Le mani in mezzo al cibo, tutte mani cortesi". Tre pasti solidali in Ingeborg Bachmann, Günter Grass e Friedrich Dürrenmatt

ABSTRACT (“Hands in the Food, all Polite Hands”. Three Solidarity Meals in Ingeborg Bachmann, Günter Grass and Friedrich Dürrenmatt) This paper focuses on a particular kind of literary representations of food, namely the “solidarity meals” described by Alois Wierlacher. They are analyzed in three prose works: Ingeborg Bachmann’s Der Fall Franza (1965-1966), Günter Grass’ Die Blechtrommel (1959) and Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s Die Panne (1956). These literary representations foster the recognition of a utopian dimension of