Launching of the book “Estética y literatura”. La gran novela entre el Ochocientos y el Novecientos” (Aesthetics and literature. The Great Novel between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries” by Giuseppe Di Giacomo Participants: Romà de la Calle, Full University Professor of Aesthetics of the UV, president of the Sant Carles Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Valencia and director of the Collection Estética & Crítica Ignasi Roviró, Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy of the Ramon Llull University Antonio Lastra, doctor in Philosophy Giuseppe Di Giacomo, author of the work “Estética y literatura. La gran novela entre el Ochocientos y el Novecientos” by Giuseppe Di Giacomo, who aims to show in this study the main lines of the modern novel. Analysing the reflection of philosophers and literature theorists the book offers a new understanding of the work of some of the most important and significant writers of the 19th and 20th century: From Flaubert to Becket, from Dostoyevsky to Kafka, from Joyce to Musil.