Open AccessBeppe Fenoglio’s I ventitre giorni della città di Alba – Personal Memory and Reflections on Civil War
Author(s) -
Christoph Söding
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
memoria y narración
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2535-597X
DOI - 10.5617/myn.8665
Subject(s) - ridiculous , spanish civil war , resistance (ecology) , narrative , world war ii , humanities , art , history , sociology , political science , literature , law , ecology , biology
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.