On her side
Neorealist novel, partisan short story, proto-feminist diary, psychological memoir and metanarrative reflection on writing: all this – and much more – is Dalla parte di lei. First published in 1949 by Mondadori, in the heart of an Italy still stunned by the end of fascism and the war, Alba de Céspedes’s novel remains a marginalized work in the official canon (still all-male), despite its anticipatory force and its profoundly modern voice. Like many novels written...