Luciana Castellina: 2 books
Lives on the Left
A Group Portrait
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
The extended critical interview is especially flexible as a form, by turns tenacious and glancing, elliptical or sustained, combining argument and counter-argument, reflection, history and memoir with a freedom normally denied to its subjects in conventional writing formats. Lives on the Left brings...
Discovery of the World
A Political Awakening in the Shadow of Mussolini
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Luciana Castellina is one of Italy’s most prominent left intellectuals and a cofounder of the newspaper il manifesto. In this coming-of agememoir, 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...