... engagement with questions about the moral and social future. Copyright © 2020 by University of Oregon 2020 postwar culture Vittorio De Sica Albert Camus Wolfgang Borchert hope WHEN GERMANY SURRENDERED, in May 1945, much of Europe was devastated. The loss of life was unfathomable. Hunger...

... 1861) could not afford the luxury of the make-believe —and, implicitly, of Lukács’s necessary anachronism — at this tenuous point of progression in the mid-nineteenth century. Giorgio Bassani exploits similar issues in Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini (1962). Because of Vittorio De Sica’s...