Title: Discovery of the world
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"--
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, Studies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Personal Memoirs, HISTORY, Italy, Kommunism, Historia, Andra världskriget 1939-1945, Adolescent girls, World war, 1939-1945, personal narratives, italian, Fascism, italy, Communism, italy, Italy, history, Italy, biography, Italy, politics and government, Italy, social conditions
Places: Italy
People: Luciana Castellina (1929-)
Time periods: 20th century, 1922-1945, 1918-1945