The Twenty-three Days of the City of Alba

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The Twenty-three Days of the City of Alba

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Also known as: “I ventitrè giorni della città di Alba”

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Italian literature

In Italian literature: Social commitment and the new realism
…della città di Alba [1952; The Twenty-three Days of the City of Alba]). There were sad tales of lost war by Giuseppe Berto (Il cielo è rosso [1947; The Sky Is Red] and Guerra in camicia nera [1955; “A Blackshirt’s War”]) and by Mario Rigoni Stern (Il sergente nella neve…
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