"A diary can reveal many things, especially if it resurfaces almost seventy after the drawer of an irregular character of the Italian left. Quaderni 1943rd recorded by a teenager from 1948, when the world changed facciae the story did not renounce its twists. But what Luciana Castellina is an anti-heroic tale, which portrays sentimental education nourished by passion, curiosity and lightness of life, sometimes frivolous and even flaky. And in comparison to males but with so many memoires beautiful - in which the author always seems to know everything until the last governs their choices - that breaks out here in defining women's sincerity ruthlessly ignorant and inadequate to meet the events of history.
"I first of all the PCI declined to be stupid," writes the author in the last pages. Only a woman could write, or at least do this. The discovery of the world, to be presented today in Rome at the theater 18 Tordinona from Alfredo Reichlin and Nichi Vendola, was nominated for Witch ( Nottetempo ). What Luciana Castellina is a strange way, the daughter of a bourgeois family of Jewish roots, grew up in conformity with the Parioli a little conformist mother, Lisette, a His face marked by 'eccentricity of Central Europe in Trieste. Anti-Austrian conspirator maternal grandfather Adolfo Liebman, fellow adventure Oberdan; microborghesia family of Milanese secular and socialist, that of Castellina, but has less influence. If life is the art of the adolescent Luciana knows how to cultivate wisdom, but only much later be able to find the meaning. The end of fascism, 25 July 1943, the surprising home Mussolini in Riccione, where he is playing tennis with his classmate Anna, daughter of the Duce. The resistance, for her, it's just a hidden message in the soles of his uncle Memmo. Volunteers Salo did not seem terrible, but just sad. We must wait for its entry into the '44 at home because the girl Apicella Parioli look with different eyes communist shareholders. And then the discovery of, and Guttridge of Mafai, and that lesson on Picasso to rate, on behalf of the Communist Party, which will be his first political act. Coming soon the first trip to Paris and Prague, the railway construction in Tito's Yugoslavia, the work in the suburbs, the meeting with the intellectuals of the Unit, including her future husband Alfredo Reichlin. Castellina but does not fail to note also the fatuity of his life partying between '45 and '46, the evening-dress where she is dressed as a Finnish "bought" by the young Carlo Aymonino. Or the flirtation carried on with Roger Vadim, husband of Jane Fonda. It should be fun, and very, l 'author of this diary. Over the years of the Dark Shops have experienced as a fault. Today that can tell, displays embarrassment, but underneath it enjoys. As all the memories of that generation, born between the twenties and thirties of last century, The discovery of the world can induce in younger readers un'inconfessabile envy. Period of iron and fire, but also the season of passion and rage, in which individual happiness coincides with the collective happiness. A condition denied to the generations that follow, as he writes in the introduction his daughter Lucrezia Reichlin. Happiness should be the title of the diary. Then he chose another, maybe not overdo it. "(From Simon Flowers, Quell'adolescenza between PCI and Parioli," La Repubblica ", 02/03 / '11)
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