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Edition 37 (1966)
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2 peopleThis poetry collection gathers poems about the Italian Resistance and renders mourning, memory, and postwar ethics through restrained language and a clear musicality.
A poetry collection that turns the memory of war into words of mourning and solidarity.
229 pages
the Resistancewar memorymourningItalian poetrycollective memorypostwar ethics
Using the experience of psychoanalysis as its starting point, this highly essayistic novel examines the feeling of unreality from social, political, and literary angles.
It follows the moments when everyday life starts to feel strangely detached from reality through reflection and self-observation.
310 pages
psychoanalysisalienationItalian literaturethe uncertainty of everyday lifeautobiographical reflectionpostwar culture