Facing the text. Some considerations about educational experience of literary fiction

This paper intends to propose some analysis on how reading a literary fiction may be-come and educational experience. Starting from the point of view of the Philosophy ofeducation and focusing on the main connections between literary work and inner-Self,these preliminary considerations refer to the idea that the search for individual shape canfind in the narrative field a thoughtful instrument to understand the complexity of therelationship subject-world. Since the Bildungsroman model, the pedagogical role of lit-erature has become increasingly fruitful, but especially in the late twentieth century, as itno longer had to make the main character a model to seek identification, Literature be-came the place of that representation of reality and thought capable of directly callinginto question the beliefs, the doubts, the sensitivities of the reader, hence supporting agrowing Self-awareness and a more disenchanted worldview. From the analysis of someof these self-reflective figures, therefore, new similarities emerge so as to make Literaturean instrument to build the shape of each one’s personality.