Luce d'Eramo

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Luce d’Eramo (June 17, 1925 – March 6, 2001) was an Italian writer and literary critic. She is best known for her autobiographical novel Deviazione, which recounts her experiences in Germany during World War II. D’Eramo's writings are characterized by interest toward controversial subjects and a search of solutions that would liberate people from physical and mental constraints.

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Early life Luce d’Eramo (née Lucette Mangione) was born in 1925 in Reims, France. The daughter of Italian parents, she lived in France until the age of fourteen. Her father, an illustrator and painter, lived in Paris from 1912 until 1915 and went back to Italy to fight in the Italian army during the First World War, as a military airplane pilot. After the war he got married and the couple moved back to France where he started a building company. Luce was the youngest of three daughters, of whom the oldest one died in infancy. Her mother served as a voluntary secretary of the Italian Fascio in Paris assisting Italian immigrant workers. In 1938 Luce and her family returned to Italy and stayed at her maternal grandmother's house in Alatri, near Rome. There Luce attended a classical liceo (high school). The change of scene proved a social and cultural shock as Luce tried to adjust to her new life in Italy. The Parisian reality with its modern values and diverse political movements (in 1936, members of the workers' Front Populaire held demonstrations directly below their house) was in sharp contrast to the backward reality of the rural areas Lazio,…Citește mai mult

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Youth and the war After the outbreak of World War II, her father joined the military service as a pilot and later started working for the news office of the air force. The family moved to Rome where Lucetta (as the family called her) attended the last year at the classical liceo “Umberto” (now “Pilo Albertelli”). After graduation she enrolled in the Faculty of Letters at the university of Rome and became a member of GUF (Association of Fascist Students), a natural choice for a girl brought up in a fascist family. After the fall of fascism, on July 25, 1943, Luce followed her family to Bassano del Grappa in northern Italy, where her father was nominated to be the undersecretary of the air force in the Republic of Salò (a puppet state led by Mussolini and supported by Nazi Germany and Italian fascist loyalists). While in Bassano del Grappa, Luce heard disturbing news about mass deportations and atrocities committed in Nazi camps. Torn between the idealistic loyalty to fascism and her own, ever-growing doubts, on February 7, 1944, she decided to find out the truth. She left her family to take on a job as a factory worker in…Citește mai mult

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Post-war period After the war ended, Luce returned to Italy and spent some time in Bologna as a patient in the Rizzoli Clinic where she met Pacifico d’Eramo, a survivor of the Russian campaign recovering from sustained injuries. They married and moved to Rome, where Pacifico became a professor of philosophy. They had a son, Marco, who was born in 1947. The marriage turned unhappy and ended in separation years later. Luce continued to use her married name even after the divorce. Once back in Italy, Luce resumed her studies, earning both her degrees in literature in 1951 (with a thesis on the poetics of Giacomo Leopardi) and philosophy in 1954 (with a thesis on Kant’s Critique of Judgment). After the publication of her first book Idilli in coro by a small publishing house in 1951, she met Alberto Moravia who admired her as a writer and accepted her short story Thomasbräu (later included in the novel Deviazione) for a prestigious magazine, “Nuovi Argomenti.” Next came a highly original essay entitled Raskolnikow and Marxism, (1960, reprinted in 1997) in which she engaged with Moravia in a discussion regarding the Soviet Union. In Finché la testa vive (1963), a short novel…Citește mai mult

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Works D’Eramo’s writings have always gravitated toward uneasy or controversial subjects, in search of solutions that would liberate people from thousands of physical and mental constraints. This pursuit would lead them toward a better knowledge of the self and an acceptance of the unknown and of “the other,” abolishing barriers that divide and exclude, thus allowing for a congenial coexistence on our planet, a tiny speck in the universe. After addressing the issues of Nazism and World War II in Deviazione and in short stories (collected in 1999 under the title Racconti quasi di guerra), Luce d’Eramo has confronted a variety of hard situations, involving social and psychological problems: the fight of dissident communist groups during the period of terror and “urban guerrilla” in Italy, called “the years of lead,” in the novel Nucleo Zero (1981); the plight of the elderly in Ultima luna (1993); the emotional deafness of young nazi skinheads in Si prega di non disturbare (1995); the mental illness in Una strana fortuna (1997); and finally, in Un’estate difficile, the psychological portrait of a domineering husband and a wife who fights for autonomy and faces the break-up of her marriage, despite the rigid social and cultural conditions…Citește mai mult

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Fiction Idilli in coro, Gastaldi, Milano1951. Finché la testa vive, Rizzoli, Milano 1964. Deviazione, Mondadori, Milano 1979; Feltrinelli, Milano 2012. Nucleo zero, Mondadori, Milano 1981. Partiranno, Mondadori, Milano 1986. Ultima luna, Mondadori, Milano 1993. Si prega di non disturbare, Rizzoli, Milano 1995. Una strana fortuna, Mondadori, Milano 1997. Racconti quasi di guerra, Mondadori, Milano1999. Un'estate difficile, Mondadori, Milano 2001 (posthumous). Il 25 luglio, Elliot Edizioni, Roma 2013. Tutti i racconti (Cecilia Bello Minciacchi ed.), Elliot Edizioni, Roma 2013.

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Essays Raskolnikov e il marxismo. Note a un libro di Moravia e altri scritti, Esse, Milano 1960; Pellicanolibri, Roma 1997. L'opera di Ignazio Silone. Saggio critico e guida bibliografica, Mondadori, Milano 1971. Cruciverba politico, Guaraldi, 1974. (ed., with Gabriella Sobrino), Europa in versi: la poesia femminile del '900, Il ventaglio, Roma 1989 Ignazio Silone, Ed. Riminesi Associati, Rimini 1994. Io sono un’aliena, Edizioni Lavoro, Roma 1999. Ignazio Silone, Castelvecchi, Roma 2014 (Yukari Saito, ed.) The volume contains L'opera di Ignazio Silone published in 1971, d’Eramo’s writings on Silone published in 1994, and the unpublished d’Eramo’s personal correspondence with Silone.

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In English: Rita C. Cavigioli, Luce d’Eramo: "Ultima luna", in Women of a Certain Age. Contemporary Italian Fictions of Female Aging, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Madison (N.J) 2005, pp. 132–152. Rosetta D’Angelo, Barbara Zaczek, Luce d’Eramo: “Una strana fortuna”, in Resisting Bodies. Narratives of Italian Partisan Women, “Annali di Italianistica”, Chapel Hill (N.C.), 2008, pp. 173–182. An extensive bibliography on Luce d’Eramo’s writings is included in the 2012 edition of Deviazione, published by Feltrinelli. In addition are the following: Daniella Ambrosino, Temi, strutture e linguaggio nei romanzi di Luce d'Eramo, “Linguistica e letteratura” XXVI (2001), pp. 195–251. Marco d’Eramo and Piersandro Vanzan (eds), Speciale Luce d’Eramo, in “Prospettiva persona” n. 44, XII (2003). It is a dossier of the series “Prospettiva Donna”, dedicated to Luce d’Eramo. Anna Maria Crispino and Marco d’Eramo (eds), Come intendersi con l’altro, “Leggendaria”, suppl. n. 99, March 2013. It is a special dossier about Luce d’Eramo, published on the “Giornata di studi” (One-day study meeting) the magazine “Leggendaria” dedicated to her, with contributions by Anna Maria Crispino, Marco d’Eramo, Daniella Ambrosino, Maria Rosa Cutrufelli, Bia Sarasini, Stefania Lucamante, Mariella Gramaglia, Barbara Zaczek, Cecilia Bello Minciacchi, Corinne Lucas-Fiorato. Angela Scarparo, Romanzi del cambiamento. Scrittrici dal 1950…Citește mai mult

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Nucleo Zero at IMDb Luce, Wanda, Yelena: It Wasn't Their War at IMDb Hannes Schwenger Zwischen Faschismus und Widerstand, Die Zeit, 20. April 1979 Harald Wieser (1982), "Eine liebenswerte Faschistin", Der Spiegel, 29. März 1982, no. 13 luce d'eramo una vita da romanzo, published in La Repubblica 7. March 2001 (Italian) Fulvio Panzeri: Le «confessioni» di Luce d'Eramo, Avvenire, 22. November 2012 (Italian)