Reading List
Curzio Malaparte,
La pelle (1949)
Eng. Curzio Malaparte, The Skin (NYRB Classics, 2013)
Ennio Flaiano,
Tempo di uccidere (1947)
Eng. Ennio Flaiano, A Time to Kill (Quartet Books, 1992)
Edith Bruck,
Chi ti ama così (1959)
Eng. Edith Bruck, Who Loves You Like This (Paul Dry Books. 2001)
Beppe Fenoglio,
Una questione privata (1963)
Eng. Beppe Fenoglio, A Private Matter (Peter Lang, 1988)
Elsa Morante,
La storia (1974)
Eng. Elsa Morante, History: A Novel (Knopf, 1977)
Giorgio Bassani,
Il giardino dei Finzi Contini (1962)
Eng. Giorgio Bassani, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Penguin Classics, 2007)
Primo Levi,
I sommersi e i salvati (1986)
Eng. Primo Levi, The Drowned and the Saved (Simon&Schuster, 2017)
Rosetta Loy,
La parola ebreo (1997)
Eng. Rosetta Loy, First Words: A Childhood in Fascist Italy (Metropolitan Books, 2000)
Igiaba Scego,
Adua (2015)
Eng. Igiaba Scego, Adua. A Novel (New Vessel Press, 2017)
Ubah Cristina Ali Farah, Madre piccola (2007)
Eng. Ubah Cristina Ali Farah, Little Mother. A Novel (Indiana UP, 2011)
Gabriella Ghermandi, Regina di fiori e di perle (2007)
Eng. Gabriella Ghermandi, Queen of Flowers and Pearls: a Novel (Indiana UP, 2015)
Alberto Moravia, Il conformista (1951)
Eng. Albero Moravia, The Conformist: a Novel (Steerforth, 1999)
Giuseppe Berto,
Il cielo è rosso (1946)
Eng. Giuseppe Berto, The Sky Is Red (New York: New Direction, 1948) (book out of print)
Vittorio Sereni,
Diario d'Algeria (1947)
Eng. Vittorio Sereni, Diario d'Algeria / Algerian Diary, in The Selected Poetry and Prose, A Bilingual Edition, trans. by Peter Robinson and Marcus Perryman (Chicago: U Chicago Press 2013)
Hugo Pratt,
Gli scorpioni del deserto (1977)
Eng. Hugo Pratt, The Scorpions of the Desert (CONG SA 2015)
Carlo Levi, Paura della libertà (1946)
Eng. Carlo Levi, Fear of Freedom (New York: Columbia UP, 2008)
* The books can be read in English or in Italian. All English translations are available for purchase.
Forthcoming publication: F. Sinopoli, F. Baldasso, Eredità culturale e memoria dei totalitarismi, Pearson, 2024