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Mothers in Tito's Gulag
David Grossman tells the tragic story of Panić Nahir (Vera) and her daughter, Tiana Wages (Nina), in the former Yugoslavia Panić Nahir, in the novel Life Plays with Me by David Grossman (Mondadori, translated by Alessandra Shomroni) is simply called Vera. Her daughter Nina, in reality, is Tiana Wages. Eva had asked David Grossman to write her story and that of her daughter. And the Israeli writer had agreed to tell it in turn and reinvent it, in his own way. When the book was written, in February 2019, Eva was no longer there. So her story, well known in the former Yugoslavia, tears away the veil of darkness on Tito's gulags and, in particular,...
Between Fiume and Moscow
The Fiume Enterprise was a truly revolutionary project, represented by the magazine “La Testa di Ferro” In recent decades, historical research has attempted to demonstrate how the Fiume Enterprise, and more generally the political D’Annunzioism, should be recognized as an autonomous and complex phenomenology, irreducible to a mere anticipation of fascism, highlighting, in addition to the irredentist and patriotic vocation, the social and libertarian aspects. Authors such as Ferdinando Cordova, Renzo De Felice, Emilio Gentile, Claudia Salaris and Giordano Bruno Guerri have in fact underlined how the most “hotheaded” fringe of the enterprise attempted to translate the climate...
