“You will be able to read what I am in a book I published in these days… I would give it to you if I could see you again…”
Thus began, on the evening of 14 July 1947, the intense correspondence between Eugenio Corti and the young literature student Vanda di Marsciano, with whom he would marry four years later in Assisi, Italy. It is a correspondence that lays bare the souls of two young people scarred by the Second World War, with the chiaroscuros of a bond that initially suffered but later became stainless.
Anyone who has lived through an experience of love will find themselves in these pages, pages that restore intact Eugenio’s great narrative capacity and surprise with the liveliness of Vanda’s stories: a reading that attracts and involves, with the force of a great family novel.

Eugenio CORTI (1921-2014) is one of the best Italian writers of the historical narrative of the XX century. He has always been a great literary master outside any group or school; with a strong sense of independence, he conceived the writer as a true witness of his time. He cultivated a personal slant towards the international cultural debate. His archives are preserved in Milan at the Ambrosian Library and the Catholic University.