Inventory cottage documents the author's journey? That feels and passer "the tempestuous farewells station"? to meet the people and places of the summers of his childhood and adolescence tuscan: essential part of the roots of his sentimental education and aesthetics. He wrote in 1939, in a real climate of tragedy when the atrocities of fascism in power, seemed next to join the active involvement of Italy in the Hitler project, with a predictable outcome of war. And he did precisely while also writing his Journal; I looking for, no doubt, in such dreamy reference, stored in memory as a treasure, the necessary counterpoint to the hardness of the vicissitudes surveyed in the latter with troubled lucidity.
This text, originally intended to friends, was then known for its beauty, various issues (a recent French). In it, along with the warm, nostalgic evocation of personal relationsh...read more
