Discovery of the world
Subtitle: a political awakening in the shadow of Mussolini
By: Luciana Castellina ; translated by Patrick Camiller
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9781781682869; 9781781682876; 9781781686591
Subjects: Childhood and youth; Diaries; Teenage girls; Coming of age; Biography; History; World War, 1939-1945; Italian Personal narratives; Fascism; Communism; Politics and government; Social conditions; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs; HISTORY / Europe / Italy
Work titles: Scoperta del mondo
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"--
Notes: "First published as La scoperta del mondo ... Nottetempo SRL, 2011"--Title page verso.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by Lucrezia Reichlin; title: War; title: Peace; title: Discovering the World; title: Discovering Italy.