My article has a dual purpose: on the one hand I will discuss the concept of social community that emerges from the public activity of Ginzburg. I will look at the political practice that Ginzburg sketched out, clarifying how this would become that “politica della memoria” aimed at defending and rebuilding what is ‘in ruin,’ i.e. — and this is also the ‘duty’ that Ginzburg had always assigned to Jewish people — aimed at standing up for all the losers of History, for all the people defeated by ‘progress.’ On the other hand, I will clarify the connection this concept of community has not only with Ginzburg’s literary topics, but with the forms of her narrative. I will make clear, in other words, how the idea of community is related to a precise form of novel structure, a structure modified according to the different historical judgments given by Ginzburg on the community-Italy.

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Original publication: Cangiano, Mimmo. "“La parola «rammendare».” Natalia Ginzburg’s Gemeinschaft." Quaderni d'italianistica 40 (1): 2020. 77-97. DOI: 10.33137/q.i..v40i1.34153. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Iter Canada / Quaderni d'italianistica. Copyright © the author(s). Their work is distributed by Quaderni d'italianistica under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For details, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/.