Sender, those who have not returned
Carlo Salsa and his ‘Trenches’
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12529624 |
|---|---|
| Authors | LUCIO VALENT (0000-0003-1558-1082, Faculty of Humanities, Department of History, University State of Milan, Milan, Italy, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 724-745 |
| Publication date | 2018-09-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Review of History Revue européenne d histoire (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1350-7486 • E-ISSN: 1469-8293 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13507486.2018.1467379 |
| OpenAlex | W2898932852 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
Carlo Salsa’s book ‘Trenches: A foot-soldier’s tales’ (Trincee. Confidenze di un fante, 1924) was one of many published in Italy after the end of the First World War. It describes the facts of the war as they were lived by officers and soldiers on the Italian front line. The article tries to compare the book with the contemporary war literature in Italy and in Europe, without forgetting the use of the international historiography on the matter. Thus, it is analysed the way an Italian author described to his readers the brutal carnage of the war in years when Fascism was the rising star in Italian policy and the censorship was becoming the more and more a thornily factor for every writer of those days. From this analysis it is possible to note the quality of the volume both from the literary point of view, and its historical value as a reliable testimony of the facts, stepping up our knowledge of what the war literature was for the Italian public opinion after the 1918. As it is possible to note, the book puts under test our notions of the role played by this kind of literature in shaping the Italian political life at the end of the 1910s and at the start of 1920s, when Italy was becoming a country lead by the Fascist regime
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Censorship · Communication source · Forgetting · Front (military · Geography · Historiography · Literature · Performance art · Period (music · Political science · Politics · SALSA · Value (mathematics · World War II · Classics · Computer Science · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Psychology · Visual Culture and Art Theory · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact
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| Highly cited | No |
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