ABSTRACT
The main objective of this chapter is to offer learners the opportunity to explore a tense and dramatic period of Italian social and political history – the season of armed struggle of the 1970s and 1980s – through a meditation on familial, political, literary, and philosophical language. The excerpt proposed in this chapter is taken from Erri De Luca’s novel Aceto, arcobaleno. Following the author’s poignant and terse language, readers move toward a deeper understanding of the motives, the ideals, and the inner turmoil that produced so much of the violence carried out by the revolutionary group Lotta Continua.
