A new Reading Group by ANPI Bergamo and Libreria Palomar, on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Liberation. The first meeting will be with “I giorni veri: diary of the Resistance” by Giovanna Zangrandi
A partisan testimony to be recovered to remember the great female figures of the resistance.
What do we mean when we talk about extraordinary lives? Perhaps we can find an answer by retracing the story of Giovanna Zangrandi, as presented to us in her introductory essay Benedetta Tobagi. Lives in which the search for one’s true self passes through a pseudonym, Anna, a battle name assumed by the author during the Resistance and the protagonist of this book. Twenty months spent in the woods and mountains of Cadore, no longer a destination for hiking and free skiing, but places where the war of liberation is fought. And while Anna does her part, Giovanna writes, filling notebooks that at some point she will have to bury at 1700 meters, under the peaks of the Marmarole, in the eastern Dolomites, and that she will retrieve only when the war is over. Those notebooks will be the raw material from which Zangrandi will reconstruct the story of Anna and her “real days.” True not only because she really lived them, but also because of the Resistance the author gives back a vivid, direct image, anything but rhetorical, expressed in a writing of great modernity.
Upcoming events:
– July 11: “Last Comes the Raven” by Italo Calvino
The whole story should be told. Read together the Resistances
This is the title of a new initiative of the ANPI of Bergamo dedicated to the discovery, or rediscovery, of great books that tell the story of the Italian Resistance and other resistances, designed to mark the 80th anniversary of the Liberation from Nazi-Fascism. It is a new Reading Group, with free participation, with six appointments for six Fridays once a month, at the Palomar Bookstore in Bergamo.
Info
Registration is required, at the contact details given.
For more information, visit the website by clicking here.