Arguably one of Italy's greatest contemporary writers, Natalia Ginzburg has been best known in America as a writer's writer, quiet beloved of her fellow wordsmiths. This collection of personal essays chosen by the eminent American writer Lynne Sharon Schwartz from four of Ginzburg's books written over the course of Ginzburg's lifetime was a many-years long project for Schwartz. These essays are deeply felt, but also disarmingly accessible. Full of self-doubt and searing insight, Ginzburg is merciless in her attempts to describe herself and her world--and yet paradoxically, her...
Arguably one of Italy's greatest contemporary writers, Natalia Ginzburg has been best known in America as a writer's writer, quiet beloved of her fell...
The Wrong Door is the first English-language translation of the complete plays of Italian writer Natalia Ginzburg (1916-1991). Bringing together the eleven plays Ginzburg wrote between 1965 and the months before her death, this volume directs attention to Ginzburg's unique talent as a dramatist.
Ginzburg's plays, like her novels and short stories, are incisive, finely tuned studies of family drama, of the breakdown of relations between the sexes, and of the tribulations of Italian domestic life. The plays showcase Ginzburg's fearless social commentary, her stark and darkly...
The Wrong Door is the first English-language translation of the complete plays of Italian writer Natalia Ginzburg (1916-1991). Bringing to...
Das mit dem Premio Strega ausgezeichnete Hauptwerk Ginzburgs ist nicht nur das komische Portrait einer denkwürdigen Familie (voran der donnernde Vater, Freund entschiedener Urteile und Verächter von Simpeln, und die unverwüstliche Mutter, listenreiche Beschützerin ihrer Kinder und des eigenen Kleiderschranks), sondern zugleich ein großartiges Portrait Italiens.
Das mit dem Premio Strega ausgezeichnete Hauptwerk Ginzburgs ist nicht nur das komische Portrait einer denkwürdigen Familie (voran der donnernde Vate...
As far as the education of children is concerned, states Natalia Ginzburg in this collection of her finest and best-known short essays, I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; not shrewdness but frankness and a love of truth; not tact but a love of one s neighbor and self-denial; not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know. Whether she writes of the loss of a friend, Cesare Pavese; or what is inexpugnable of World War II; or the Abruzzi,...
As far as the education of children is concerned, states Natalia Ginzburg in this collection of her finest and best-known short essays, I think th...
A masterpiece of European literature that blends family memoir and fiction An Italian family, sizable, with its routines and rituals, crazes, pet phrases, and stories, doubtful, comical, indispensable, comes to life in the pages of Natalia Ginzburg's Family Lexicon. Giuseppe Levi, the father, is a scientist, consumed by his work and a mania for hiking--when he isn't provoked into angry remonstration by someone misspeaking or misbehaving or wearing the wrong thing. Giuseppe is Jewish, married to Lidia, a Catholic, though neither is religious; they live in the...
A masterpiece of European literature that blends family memoir and fiction An Italian family, sizable, with its routines and rituals...
From "one of the most distinguished writers of modern Italy" (New York Review of Books), a classic novel of society in the midst of a war. This powerful novel is set against the background of Italy from 1939 to 1944, from the anxious months before the country entered the war, through the war years, to the allied victory with its trailing wake of anxiety, disappointment, and grief. In the foreground are the members of two families. One is rich, the other is not. In All Our Yesterdays, as in all of Ms. Ginzburg's novels, terrible things happen--suicide, murder, air...
From "one of the most distinguished writers of modern Italy" (New York Review of Books), a classic novel of society in the midst of a war.
Eine Frau hat ihren Mann ermordet und erzählt, wie es dazu kam, kommen musste. Die lakonisch erzählte Geschichte einer klassischen Dreierbeziehung: Liebe, Leidenschaft, Verzweiflung, Eifersucht ? und am Ende ein tödlicher Schuss. Mit diesem von Italo Calvino enthusiastisch begrüßten Roman erlebte Ginzburg, die zu den bedeutendsten modernen Autoren Italiens zählt, ihren literarischen Durchbruch.
Eine Frau hat ihren Mann ermordet und erzählt, wie es dazu kam, kommen musste. Die lakonisch erzählte Geschichte einer klassischen Dreierbeziehu...
