Scrivere «soltanto la vita e soltanto se si ha qualcosa da dire che non si vuole vada perduto»: la memoria volontaria di Luisa Adorno

Abstract

In Luisa Adorno’s writing, there is a constant search for a point of convergence between collective history and personal micro-history. The irruption of wartime events in her life will be the traumatic element that will inexorably mark all her relationships, leading her to approach the circles of anti-fascist intellectuals and the Resistance. Most of the works, halfway between autobiography and novel, are linked to that memory, in which the remembrances of multiple intellectual ties is aroused from time to time by minimal sensations and the reduction of the great events of the 20th century to the measure of the everyday, through the mixture of private, biographical and memoir insights, marks the narrated life of the author like a sort of metronome.