#Readandlisten,Dislo!

"His steps were heavy under the weight of the backpack, and there was no expression of joy on his face. The cheerful words of the song escaped from his mouth, foreign to him. "Uncle Francesco," the eldest, with a wife and five children, was one thing, his song another. The colonel, on horseback, offered twenty lire to the company and five for Uncle Francesco, just for him. In the evening, a non-commissioned officer spent all twenty lire on wine and tobacco and distributed everything. In war, one does not think of tomorrow. Voices rose: 'To the health of the colonel!' Only one youthful voice stood out from the others, hostile: 'To the health of that whore of his mother!' The soldier who had uttered those words remained lying down, refusing to drink. The voices fell silent, and only that one remained, grave as that of a patriarch, that of 'Uncle Francesco.' 'Never in my life have I earned five lire all at once, not even in a week, except during the harvest, working from dawn till dusk.' Emilio Lussu (A Year on the Altiplano)

Serge Reggiani, Le Déserteur (Boris Vian, 1954) con sottotitoli in italiano