Discovery of the world : a political awakening in the shadow of Mussolini / Luciana Castellina ; translated by Patrick Camiller.

By:

Castellina, Luciana, 1929-

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Publisher: London ; New York : Verso, 2014Description: xiv, 194 pages ; 21 cmISBN:

9781781682869 (hardback : alkaline paper)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

945.091092 CAS

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Contents:

Foreword / by Lucrezia Reichlin -- War -- Peace -- Discovering the World -- Discovering Italy.

Scope and content: "Luciana Castellina is one of Italy's most prominent left intellectuals and a cofounder of the newspaper Il manifesto. In this coming-of-age memoir, based on her diaries, she recounts her political awakening as a teenage girl in Fascist Italy--where she used to play tennis with Mussolini's daughter--and the subsequent downfall of the regime. Discovery of the World is about war, anti-Semitism, anti-fascism, resistance, the belief in social justice, the craving for experience, travel, political rallies, cinema, French intellectuals and FIAT workers, international diplomacy and friendship. All this is built on an intricate web made of reason and affection, of rational questioning and ironic self-narration as well as of profound nostalgia, disappointment and discovery"-- Provided by publisher.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	H.T. Parekh Library	SIAS Collection	945.091092 CAS (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		K2093

Gratis

"First published as La scoperta del mondo ... Nottetempo SRL, 2011"--Title page verso.

Includes index.

Foreword / by Lucrezia Reichlin -- War -- Peace -- Discovering the World -- Discovering Italy.

"Luciana Castellina is one of Italy's most prominent left intellectuals and a cofounder of the newspaper Il manifesto. In this coming-of-age memoir, based on her diaries, she recounts her political awakening as a teenage girl in Fascist Italy--where she used to play tennis with Mussolini's daughter--and the subsequent downfall of the regime. Discovery of the World is about war, anti-Semitism, anti-fascism, resistance, the belief in social justice, the craving for experience, travel, political rallies, cinema, French intellectuals and FIAT workers, international diplomacy and friendship. All this is built on an intricate web made of reason and affection, of rational questioning and ironic self-narration as well as of profound nostalgia, disappointment and discovery"-- Provided by publisher.

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