Narrare una storia universale. «L'uomo che verrà» e la storiografia gramsciana «dal basso»
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- Giorgio Diritti's film L'uomo che verrà tells of the violence of war that befell Monte Sole's peasant community. It was a Nazi massacre
- and
- like all massacres
- it was a chronicle of tragedy and death
- claiming nearly 800 victims guilty merely of having fought desperately against the War's violence. Men
- women
- children
- and the partisan community are the leading players in the film
- which gives voice to humble people from the Gramscian perspective &ndash
- «from below». Poor country people and partisans withstand the tragedy of war
- defending land
- home
- and family. Not heroes
- they are
- first and foremost
- common people.
- E.J. Hobsbawm takes the same perspective
- starting with his Primitive Rebels (1959)
- where he devotes major studies to rebel peasants
- brigands
- and rabble rousers. Like brigands
- partisans are often poor country people: the myth of the «patriot-partisan» arose in the Second postwar period
