El alba de un mundo nuevo | Alberto Asor Rosa | book new | sale

Alberto Asor Rosa

Barataria : Bárbaros | 2005

310 | 7h 25m

spanish | softcover | new | sale

20cm x 16cm | 475gr

The narrative, of rare intensity, opens in 1933 with the first stammering steps in the family home and ends in May 1945, when, already in his teens, Alberto is a spectator of events that will mark him for life: the bombings of the civilian population, the departure of German troops from Rome and the subsequent discovery of the terrible massacre of the Ardeatine Trenches, the entry of the American army and the hopeful conclusion of the end of a war that opens the doors of a world new. Parallel to the urban universe of Rome, Asor Rosa presents us with another face of civil society: the town of Artena, a rural world in danger of extinction in which the customs and ways of life of men are as linked to the land as the few trees and animals that accompany them and share their hardships with them. Ancestral hardness, yes, poverty too, but also an irreplaceable memory of a lost freedom, of dignity at work and in family relationships, of an almost mystical contact with the roots.