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Her father, an illustrator and painter, lived in Paris from 1912 until 1915 and went back to Italy to fight in the
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is an autobiographical novel that recounts the dramatic events experienced in her youth. It is also a mystery of memory: the memory of a deeply wounded woman who had to contend with the difficulty of recovering the true meaning of her war experience in the post-war context and of returning to the
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After the outbreak of World War II, her father joined the military service as a pilot and later started working for the news office of the air force. The family moved to Rome where
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D’Eramo’s writings have always gravitated toward uneasy or controversial subjects, in search of solutions that would liberate people from thousands of physical and mental constraints. This pursuit would lead them toward a better knowledge of the self and an acceptance of the unknown and of “the
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748:, “Leggendaria”, suppl. n. 99, March 2013. It is a special dossier about Luce d’Eramo, published on the “Giornata di studi” (One-day study meeting) the magazine “Leggendaria” dedicated to her, with contributions by Anna Maria Crispino, Marco d’Eramo, Daniella Ambrosino,
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in 1971. In this monumental piece of meticulous research and original insight, d’Eramo examines the resistance of the
Italian cultural milieu to a native Italian writer who achieved world fame as one of the greatest figures of the literary scene in the twentieth century.
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d’Eramo published several other novels and short stories. She spent the rest of her life writing and travelling in Europe, United States, and Japan. In 1980 she spent a year in Berlin as a writer guest of the DAAD (Deutscher
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500:), Luce d’Eramo has confronted a variety of hard situations, involving social and psychological problems: the fight of dissident communist groups during the period of terror and “urban guerrilla” in Italy, called “the years of lead,” in the novel
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youngest of three daughters, of whom the oldest one died in infancy. Her mother served as a voluntary secretary of the
Italian Fascio in Paris assisting Italian immigrant workers.
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Resisting Bodies, Narratives of Italian Women Partisans
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Resisting Bodies. Narratives of Italian Partisan Women
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