Verticale del 1963, ovvero L'inimitabile autobiografia di una generazione

1963 was an exceptional year for Italian literature because it was marked by six or seven works that play a decisive role in the history of their respective authors: in addition to Libera nos a malo, Meneghello’s first book, Lessico famigliare by Natalia Ginzburg, La tregua by Primo Levi, La giornata d’uno scrutatore by Italo Calvino, Una questione privata by Beppe Fenoglio, Il consiglio d’Egitto by Leonardo Sciascia. A comparison of these books reveals the profile of a very specific generation, that of writers coming of age during the Second World War and their particular sensitivity to the link between individual existence and collective destiny.