Abstract
The article examines I ventitre giorni della città di Alba, one of Beppe Fenoglio’s early texts about the Italian resistance during the Second World War. Largely ignored at the time of its first publication, it rose to fame only in the 1960s. This is strongly linked to the fact that Fenoglio depicts the resistance as a civil war, a rather controversial issue in post-war Italy. He deheroises the partisans and shows the inadequacy of social categories by adopting a specific narrative strategy that focuses on the mundane and the ridiculous.
Highlights
The article examines I ventitre giorni della città di Alba, one of Beppe Fenoglio’s early texts about the Italian resistance during the Second World War
The reader is provided with a precise timeframe for the episode from the outset of the story, which declares the massive losses that the partisans had to suffer: “Alba la presero in duemila il 10 ottobre e la persero in duecento il 2 novembre dell’anno 1944” (3)
The Resistenza – the Italian Resistance movement that fought against the Fascist Republic of Salò, which continued the fights of the Second World War with the help of the German troops in northern Italy – became an important founding element of the Italian left (Natoli 307–327) and of Italian society as such (Miller 39–43) after the war
Summary
The article examines I ventitre giorni della città di Alba, one of Beppe Fenoglio’s early texts about the Italian resistance during the Second World War. In this paper it is my aim to show that I ventitre giorni della città di Alba and Fenoglio’s other texts are important means of understanding historical events not despite their being literary works, but exactly because of it.
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