An editorial note introducing a previously published article.
In this reading of Calvino, remembering requires the work of writing: choosing a scene, finding a voice and acknowledging what escapes recall. The article brings autobiographical writing into conversation with reflections on the Resistance, tracing the relationship between experience and invention. Fidelity to the past becomes a question of narrative form.
This is a short route into themes explored in I fondovalle della memoria. The publisher’s link leads to the complete Italian argument in its original context.