And yet another Italian book about... Fascism!
Well, not quite, or at least, not just that. Anyway, one of the books that I
read for (or instead of doing?) my Ph.D.
This is a display of oral history at its
finest, probably the only non-fiction book that I will write about in this
blog. I wish Italian high-schools could force students to read this, but it’s
unlikely to happen in a country where the school system somehow still works yet
students read Cosmo at best.
Il Mondo dei Vinti is a collection of short
stories/interviews to the everyday poor people of Northern Italy. The reader
dives head first into the memories of these people, and one is bound to wonder
whether it made any difference to them whether a tiny king, a petty dictator or
a hopeful Prime Minister were taking the big decisions in Rome.
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