Con gli occhi di una bambina. I diari di piume e di piombo di Donatella Ziliotto durante la Seconda Guerra Mondiale

Abstract

The paper focuses on the analysis of the diaries written during the Second World War. The narratives began in 1940 in Trieste: Donatella is eight years old and tells what she sees before her eyes – and that everyone calls “war” - with the sharpness of one’s child gaze. He is sixty, however, when he rereads those memories in the novel Un chilo di piume un chilo di piombo, which has as its protagonist Fiamma, who is the alter ego of little Donatella. The contribution will try to trace, between chronicles of war and utopias of peace, - intertwining the child’s gaze and woman’s gaze - the outlines of the proposal for a new, possible humanism, starting from childhood.