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Articles by Rossana Rossanda
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The Comrade from Milan
in NLR 49, January-February 2008, pp. 76-100
Subjects: Biography and Intellectual History , Communist Movement , Italy
Memories of war-time resistance work and the political culture of the million-strong PCI in liberated Milan, from one of the founding editors of Il Manifesto. Questions and doubts, in this portrait of an unsentimental education.
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The Defeat of Goodness
in NLR 18, November-December 2002, pp. 98-105
Subjects: Literature
In Dostoevsky’s Idiot alone, the moral virtue that defies aesthetic representation found a credible hero. But to be realized in fiction, could it avoid being comprehensively defeated? Russian dilemmas and their after-shock in Kurosawa.
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