Open AccessSagapò e Soldatesse: la Grecia degli invasori
Author(s) -
L. Gallarini
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
lingue culture mediazioni
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2421-0293
pISSN - 2284-1881
DOI - 10.7358/lcm-2021-001-gall
Subject(s) - memoir , art , history , ancient history , art history , humanities
Among the many authors who covered the Italian military occupation of Greece (1940-1943), Renzo Biasion and Ugo Pirro still stand out as being the most influential. Their books, halfway between memoir and fiction, tell the stories of soldiers living their youth in a dreamy yet dangerous world, where all men have been deported as war prisoners, and everyday products such as gasoline display Homer’s alfabet. The antifascism of Sagapò (1953), which inspired the Academy Award-winning film Mediterraneo (1991), and Le soldatesse (1956) lays therefore in the rediscovery of a common heritage, both ancient and modern.