Subversive, feminist, Alba de Céspedes shook the foundations of literature in post-war Europe and opened, with The Forbidden Notebook, a window to the outside, the world is rebuilt; inside doors, the domestic life of an ordinary woman implodes when she decides to start a diary. Rome, 1950s: Valeria Cossati goes to buy cigarettes for her husband, unaware that she will leave the tobacco shop with a notebook that will change her life. By transforming this notebook into a secret diary where she records everyday thoughts and desires, Valeria transforms it into an instrument of emancipation: she frees herself from social conventions, from the sense of duty to her husband and children, from the self-imposed limits that govern her small world. From here on, everything is questioned. Valeria understands that she is in translation and decides to conquer the place she chose for herself.
