La letteratura come vita e come speranza: pedagogia politica in Carlo Bo

This paper offers a critical-hermeneutic analysis of hope in Carlo Bo’s thought, rooting it within a very long tradition (Greek and Hebraic). The author then focuses the attention on the anthological text Scan- dalo della Speranza, with which Bo entertains a dialogue with facts and faces of his time. Bo’s thought follows a counter-factuality of hope, moving this notion beyond the mere facts, data or numbers. This is a fil rouge that links Bo’s to the Pauline thought, bringing it and rooting it within the xx century, and making it a truly topical subject.