TY  - BOOK
AU  - Castellina,Luciana
TI  - Discovery of the world: a political awakening in the shadow of Mussolini 
SN  - 9781781682869 (hardback : alkaline paper)
AV  - DG571 .C426513 2014
U1  - 945.091092B 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - London
PB  - Verso
KW  - Castellina, Luciana,
KW  - Teenage girls
KW  - Italy
KW  - Diaries
KW  - Coming of age
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Personal narratives, Italian
KW  - Fascism
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Communism
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / Italy
KW  - Biography
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1922-1945
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 1918-1945
N1  - "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
N2  - "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"--
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