La nuit italienne
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ISBN10: 2709627779
ISBN13: 9782709627771
Publisher: Editions J.C. Lattes
Published: Apr 5 2006
Pages: 454
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.92 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.86
Language: French
ISBN13: 9782709627771
Publisher: Editions J.C. Lattes
Published: Apr 5 2006
Pages: 454
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.92 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.86
Language: French
Giulia turned 13 in 1924 when Mussolini's fascism intensified its dominance in Italy. Free-spirited and passionate about art and literature, Giulia had a strong distaste for authority. Her rebelliousness got her into trouble more than once and worried her family and those close to her. A few years later, now totally involved in the artist society headed by the formidable mistress of the Duce, Margherita Sarfatti, Giulia continues to suffer the consequences of her impulsiveness and disrespect for authority. Torn between her love for an antifascist painter and her irrepressible attraction for the powerful minister Italo Balbo, in a climate of heightening intemperance, Giulia will be confronted with the most horrific public figures of the time. With uninhibited talent and humour, that does nothing to detract from the atrocities of the period, this novel takes us behind the scenes of the powers in Rome of the 1930's ? that of the bohemian artist groups but also that of propaganda, the black shirts and the grotesque drama announcing the rise of Nazi Germany? Nicole Fabre lives in the south of France. She has published, among other works, Les jardins du fraxinet (Albin Michel, 1997) and Léonard le Toscan (Mazarine, 2000).
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