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The article shows the results of the analysis of literary “trauma without trauma” concept by Daniele Giglioli, observed in prose pieces of Italian writer, Aldo Nove. The Autor of the paper explains the theory of the Italian literary scholar and searches for its reflection and its way of presenting in the newest Italian literature on the example of Nove’s stories: Ruanda and Vermicino from the collection Superwoobinda (1998) and Il giorno più bello della mia vita from Anteprima mondiale (2016). The aim of the examination is to respond to the question, what, according to the writer, is the trauma of the contemporary society and in which way is it presented in the contemporary literature.