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Discovery of the World: A Political Awakening in the Shadow of Mussolini

Discovery of the World: A Political Awakening in the Shadow of Mussolini

Castellina, Luciana

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ISBN10: 1781682860
ISBN13: 9781781682869
Publisher: Verso
Published: May 6 2014
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.85
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
Luciana Castellina is one of Italy's most prominent left intellectuals and a cofounder of the newspaper il manifesto. In this coming-of agememoir, 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.

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