Fondazione Archivio Diaristico Nazionale Pieve Santo Stefano Arezzo

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Fondazione Archivio Diaristico NazionalePieve
Santo Stefano - Arezzo

• Transnational Second Meeting
• Grundtvig Project European Memories
• Barcellona, 5 8 march 2009

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The role of the reading commission

• The commission is formed by a group of 12/14
  local people
• Each group differs by age, sex, experience,
  education
• They are not scholars and or even passionate
  novel readers. They are not anthropogical or
  historical experts, they are only ordinary
  readers who read the stories of ordinary people
• The reading commission has developed its own
  method of text analysis by using experience,
  passion, involvement, research and focus on human
  beings. It means entering into a persons life
  through his writings, feeling a strong empathy
  with hundreds and hundreds of life stories

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• At the first phase, external readers collaborate
  with the commission in their selection. Almost
  every week the commission reads and discusses
  almost diaries, memories and letters
• The second stage, is to chose, after an accurate
  selection, the most eigth interesting
• Finally the National jury formed by learned
  people, from differing cultural worlds selects
  the winner
• The award of 1000 Euros in presented during a
  public celebration in September. The winner entry
  is currently published by publishers Terre di
  Mezzo (Milano)

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The criteria of the reading commission

• The Commission always keeps in mind Tutinos
  comments when he emphasized the centrality of man
  in the analysis of texts.
• An individual is capable of telling a social
  History in a personal context. He is capable of
  writing about himself in a not literary form,
  and is able to suggest within the texts idea of
  liveliness, a term mentioned by the famous
  writer Natalia Ginzburg
• The only parameter to judge is by a subjective
  view of the text. The reader becomes involved in
  a particular and personale way
• They are not texts of historical objective truth,
  but documents of what people believes is the
  truth of their own lives

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Some points are taken into greater consideration
during the selection

• Author (place and date of birth, course of
  studies, information relating to his biography)
• Gender diary, collection of letters,
  autobiography
• The period wich the writing covers, when was is
  written, how they have heard of the prize
• Historical context and the main, social and
  political evets
• Events in its development

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• Theme
• Authors personality (caracter, ideas,
  intentions, desires, emotions)
• Writing in first or third person
• Construction of language
• Presence or not of grammar or spelling errors are
  not important if the text conveys

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The commission looks more negatively way at

• Excessive brevity making it impossible to
  understand events
• Subject not interesting
• Contest that overwhelms the autors personality
• Excesive language construction (redundancy, too
  many figures of speeches, excessive, direct
  speehes, the division into chapters not
  appropriate to the history, chaotic and confusing
  sentences)
• Too romanticized text or lack of credibility in
  relation to the events, date or the too detailed
  memories as a child

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Vladimiro Pahor

• NarrationCosì iniziai a frequentare il
  ginnasio a Via XX Settembre a Gorizia. In classe
  eravamo soltanto maschi, solo quattro sloveni,
  tutti ali altri erano italiani. Mi chiamavano
  Sciavo, perché non nascondevo la mia origine
  slovena come gli altri miei compagni sloveni,
  qualcuno mi ribattezzava Pacorini, come il
  regime fascista italianizzava Pahor in Pacorni.
  Mio padre non volle mai cambiare il cognome. A
  scuola andavo così così, con grosse difficoltà in
  italiano nei compiti sritti prendevo sempre due
  voti, uno per la grammatica e lortografia,
  negativo (non mi riusciva mai di indovinare le
  doppie), laltro per la composizione, a volte
  anche molto alto. Matematica conoscenza zero,
  perché non lho mai studiata. In classe cerano
  due compagni che studiavano e conoscevano molto
  bene la matematica. Linsegnante di matematica
  era molto sordo e aveva un apparecchio acustico
  che gli fischiava e lo teneva quasi sempre
  spento. Nei compiti di matematica i compagni
  matematici ci dettavano la soluzione.
  Allinterrogazione ci suggerivano la risposta e
  noi, come pappagalli, la ripetevamo. Per questi
  servizi li pagavamo, guai se mancavano in classe
  se lo facevano li picchiavamo. Così tutta la mia
  classe era completamente digiuna di matematica.
  La professoressa dInglese, che era la seconda
  lingua, lo Sloveno non cera, mi prendeva sempre
  in giro e mi maltrattava.

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• Abstract

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• Place and date of birth
• Geographical origin
• Title
• Pages
• Type of text
• Chronological extremes of story
• Time of writing
• Subjects
• Keywords
• Places

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Claudia Colussi Corte

• Narration L'isola prese il nome di Goli Otok
  (isola nuda) proprio perchè è una massa di pietra
  deserta. I venti che soffiano con insistenza non
  permettevano ad alcuna pianta di soppravivere a
  lungo. Questa isola priva di vita e con il suo
  aspetto che evocava la morte, era ideale per un
  carcere dove nessuna legge umana sarebbe più
  esistita. Nessuno avrebbe potuto avere accesso al
  carcere, avrebbe potuto fuggire. Nessuno al mondo
  avrebbe saputo delle atrocità che i detenuti
  avrebbero dovuto subire! Venne il giorno della
  partenza per Goli Otok. Il cielo era coperta di
  nubi scure. Minacciava un temporale e anche
  questa volta soffiava un forte scirocco. Il
  viaggio fino a Fiume fu lungo e travagliato.
  Arrivate a Fiume, le nubi temporalesche si erano
  dissipate, il mare era calmo e il cielo era
  sereno. Prima dell'imbrunire mia madre ed io
  dovevamo trovare un posto dove trascorrere la
  notte. Doveva essere vicino al porto, perchè il
  giorno successivo, dalle ore 6, una nave, di nome
  Punat, ci avrebbe dovuto portare a Goli Otok.

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• Abstract In 1946, Claudia and her parents left
  Monfalcone and moved to Lussimpiccolo, in her
  fathers country of origin. Her father had been
  fascinated by Soviet communism. There he hoped
  to achieve equality for all. Russia was too far
  away.
• When Yugoslavia became politically and
  economically independent from the Soviet Union
  Claudia s father was condemned for his
  subversive activity and deported to Goli Otok,
  Isola Nuda.
• Claudia and her mother had no income and so
  returned to Italy about a year later. The idea
  of Yugoslavia for Claudia, coincides with the
  indelible memory of Goli Otok, where many
  prisoners lived under terrible conditions and
  many died.
• In January 1954 the two women met him again
  for fifteen minutes. To them he was
  unrecognizable. Several years later, thanks to an
  amnesty for Christmas, Claudia welcomed her
  father again. From February 1951 to the end of
  1954 this man had shared his fate with more than
  2000 other prisoners. Many of them "died of
  exhaustion, torture, starvation and disease."

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• Place and date of birth
• Geographical origin Yugoslavia Italia
• Title Lisola nuda
• Pages 85
• Type of text Memories and autobiographies
• Chronological extremes of story 1946-1956
• Time of writing 1998
• Subjects Friendship, Family, Children, Youth,
  Imprisonment, External Migration, Politics,
  Faith, Religiosity, schools, communities,
  Deportation, navigation, Prison, Torture
• Keywords Political prisoner, prison of Goli
  Otok, Tito regime
• Places Isola Vicentina, Vicenza/district,
  Croazia, Lussimpiccolo, Fiume, Pola, Isola di
  Goli, Pordenone, Monfalcone, Gorizia/provincia,
  Taglio di Po, Rovigo/district

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Elisa Frassetto

• Narration

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• Abstract A girl, from Turin, went to Croatia in
  1996. She travelled with her boyfriend whom she
  had just met. She was very curious about a war
  she knew only through media reports. After a few
  weeks Elisa joined the organization la Colomba
  (volunteers of Pope John XXIII ). She wanted to
  show solidarity with the suffering people
  because of civil war, caused by ethnic reasons,
  in the former Yugoslavia that was at this time
  disintegrating. Elisa, with other young people,
  in Plavno and Knin in Croatia, assisted old
  people abandoned by Serbs to escape to Belgrade.
  Those lonely, poor and sick, people preferred the
  past, to present times of hatred and death. The
  young Italian volunteers remained a long time
  with them, alleviating their loneliness and
  responding to their immediate needs. Thus
  Elisas high ideals were shattered by the tragic
  reality that still lasts today in Ex-Yugoslavia.

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• Place and date of birth Torino 1974
• Geographical originItaly, Yugoslavia, Italy
• TitlePlavno become home
• Pages 36
• Type of text Diary
• Chronological extremes of story1996-1998
• Time of writing 1996-1998
• Subjects ideology, war, social exclusion,
  poverty, seniors
• Keywords Postwar Yugoslavia, humanitarian
  missions, operation Colomba, ethnic conflict,
  writing youth, humanitarian aid, organization
  Pope John XXIII, volunteering, international
  cooperation
• PlacesCroazia, Spalato, Knin, Plavno,
  Iugoslavia, Belgrado

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Maria Margorzata Straszewska

• Narration Negli ultimi due anni, prima della
  guerra, ci furono degli strani movimenti nella
  zona dove si trovava la Casa Lontana tra i
  contadini di origine tedesca, delle riunioni
  segrete, strane facce in giro. Tutto questo
  convinse mia madre a vendere il podere e
  trasferirsi all'est del paese dove la vita
  sarebbe stata più sicura. La casa e i campi
  furono messi in vendita, e comperati,
  naturalmente, da un tedesco e cominciarono i
  nostri viaggi per trovare un'altra casa.
  Visitammo così parecchie tenute e finalmente ne
  trovammo una giusta. () Anche nel collegio ci
  furono dei notevoli cambiamenti in quel periodo.
  Il Ministero dell'educazione impose a tutte le
  scuole, sia statali che private, l'educazione
  paramilitare per prepararsi a un'eventuale
  guerra. Andavamo dunque al campo di tiro per
  imparare a maneggiare i fucili e a sparare.
  Avevamo avuto anche delle esercitazioni con le
  maschere a gas, e con il vero gas iperite, che
  dovevamo sopportare con le maschere sul viso per
  una mezz'ora.

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• Abstract an architect participated in the Polish
  resistance in Warsaw when people were opposed to
  concentration camps. With the advent of Communism
  in her native country, she emigrated first in
  Belgium, then in England. Married with two
  children, she moved to Italy where her husband
  obtained a job in a bank after difficult years
  she started a peaceful life.

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• Place and date of birth Kalisz (Poland), 1923
• Geographical origin Poland
• Title Un secolo - un momento
• Pages 131
• Type of text Memory - autobiography
• Chronological extremes of story 1928-1971
• Time of writing 1989-1992

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• Subjects Friendship, Family, Marriage, Children,
  Youth, World War 1939-45 Resistance Racial
  Persecution Emigration School, Study,
  University, Student, Travel, Holidays, Work,
  Motherhood, House, Immigration, Colleges,
  Christian Holidays, Christmas bombing
  Communism prisoners of war Work camps
  Folklore, traditions, religious colleges
  Removals Grandparents
• Keywords The Warsaw Insurrection (1944)
• Places Poland, Ostrow Pozane Warsaw Niedzica,
  Sweden, Stockholm, Germany Fallingbostel
  Oberlangen Lingen, Belgium Brussels, Gembloux,
  England, London, Harwich, Checkendon, France,
  Paris, Chartres, Collioure, Marseille Tregastel,
  Perpignan, Rome, Naples, Venice, Spain,
  Barcelona, Milan Seregno, Monza, Milan /
  province

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Paolo Iannucci

• Narration

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• Abstract He was still a child at the beginning
  of the thirties when both parents died. His
  parents had been rich merchants in the city.
  Without their parents support, he and his
  brothers became very poor. Then, still young, he
  emigrated to Milan and then to Paris where he
  became involved in the clashes between Algerian
  independence and the French gendarmerie. One
  evening, in the middle of a shootout his
  girlfriend Fiorella died by his side, mistaken
  for an Algerian woman. In 1961 he married a
  lovely young English woman. They settled on the
  island of Wight and he became a British citizen.
  His two children left home when they were very
  young and nothing more was heard about them.
  Finally his marriage failed and he was abandoned
  by his wife and children.

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• Place and date of birth Napoli 1928
• Geographical origin Italy. France, England
• Title Il codice di Dio
• Pages 166
• Type of text Autobiography
• Chronological extremes of story 1928-1994
• Time of writing 1989-1994
• Subjects genealogy, childhood, youth, family,
  mourning, work, world war 1939-45, bombing,
  poverty, love, prison, emigration, marriage,
  children, lotteries, wealth, homicide.
• Keywords sciuscià, Algerian front, postwar,
  allies, bombing on Naples 1943, Four days of
  Naples 1943 Vesuvio eruption 1944, Marshall Plan,
  Algerian independence.
• Places Napoli, Milano, Francia, Parigi, Gran
  Bretagna, Londra, Isola di Wight