Discovery of the world

By Luciana Castellina

Subjects: Adolescent girls, Biography, Politics and government, Italy, biography, Italy, social conditions, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Andra världskriget 1939-1945, Italy, history, Italian Personal narratives, Teenage girls, Italy, politics and government, HISTORY, World War, 1939-1945, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, Childhood and youth, Coming of age, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, Fascism, italy, Personal Memoirs, Fascism, Diaries, World war, 1939-1945, personal narratives, italian, Communism, Social conditions, Historia, Communism, italy, History, Italy, Studies, Kommunism

Description: "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"--