To examine without bias the literature of the No-nine hundred, one realizes, not without some surprise, that it even when one has not been able to give evidence of a solid faith, nourished by certainties, has become the expression of a restless search edged broadly religious. Indeed, not the least effect of epochal crisis that has affected modern civilization, perhaps never as in the last century, the literature is open to the mystery, pressing him with its radical demands. Therefore, whoever has described the modern world as the result of secularization, he said something true but partial, not taking into account what stirs beneath the surface of a seemingly stagnant historical time away,'' as well as by experience ', even the 'problem' religious. In fact, poets and writers, betrayed or disappointed by positivist science, have understood that without a foundation you can not live, that the 'death of God' it drags, as an inevitable corollary, even the death of the man.

Thus becomes an enlightening adventure to follow the paths, often tortuous, problematic, complex, but so authentic and incisive, and many authors who have dealt with the ultimate meaning of life. The National Conference on Research Foundation, held at the headquarters of the Catholic University of Brescia between 8 and 9 November 2010, it sought to offer, in fact, the status questionis of the relationship between literature and religion in the contemporary age and an initial mapping instances in the metaphysical and spiritual literature of secularized society  (Giuseppe Langella).