Calvino’s “Day of an election assistant” as a compulsory studying for Democrats | EUROtoday
A younger Italian communist was despatched by his occasion to look at parliamentary elections in 1953. Amerigo Ormea spends an extended grey Sunday within the Cottolengo, a district, massive, church -operated residence for mentally handicapped folks in Turin, who nonetheless has greater than a thousand residents at this time. In the polling stations there, the protagonist ought to examine the correctness of the process from the occasion’s perspective. Italo Calvinos seventy aspect lengthy, typically excruciating historical past “The Day of an election assistant” from 1963 (“La Giornata di Uno Scrutatore”, German 1964 with Fischer), because the creator emphasizes in a observe -up word, solely skilled experiences from two Italian parliamentary elections on. It supplies a powerful description of the a number of uncertainties of democratic follow.
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