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Family and Borghesia by Ginzburg, Natalia, paperback, Used - Like New
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- ISBN
- 9781681375083
- Book Title
- Family and Borghesia
- Item Length
- 7.9in
- Publisher
- New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Contemporary Women, Family Life, Literary
- Item Width
- 5.1in
- Item Weight
- 5.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 128 Pages
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Two novellas about domestic life, isolation, and the passing of time by one of the finest Italian writers of the twentieth century. Carmine, an architect, and Ivana, a translator, lived together long ago and even had a child, but the child died, and their relationship fell apart, and Carmine married Ninetta, and their child is Dod , who Carmine feels is a little dull, and these days Carmine is still spending every evening with Ivana, but Ninetta has nothing to say about that. Family , the first of these two novellas from the 1970s, is an examination, at first comic, then progressively dark, about how time passes and life goes on and people circle around the opportunities they had missed, missing more as they do, until finally time is up. Borghesia , about a widow who keeps acquiring and losing the Siamese cats she hopes will keep her company in her loneliness, explores similar ground, along with the confusions of feeling and domestic life that came with the loosening social strictures of the 1970s. "She remembered saying that there were three things in life you should always refuse," thinks one of Natalia Ginzburg's characters, beginning to age out of youth: "Hypocrisy, resignation, and unhappiness. But it was impossible to shield yourself from those three things. Life was full of them and there was no holding them back."
Product Identifiers
Publisher
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1681375087
ISBN-13
9781681375083
eBay Product ID (ePID)
7050406196
Product Key Features
Book Title
Family and Borghesia
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Contemporary Women, Family Life, Literary
Publication Year
2021
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
128 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.9in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.1in
Item Weight
5.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pq4817.I5a2 2021
Reviews
"A glowing light of modern Italian literature . . . Ginzburg's magic is the utter simplicity of her prose, suddenly illuminated by one word that makes a lightning stroke of a plain phrase . . . As direct and clean as if it were carved in stone, it yet speaks thoughts of the heart." --Kate Simon, The New York Times "The raw beauty of Ginzburg's prose compels our gaze. First we look inward, with the shock of recognition inspired by all great writing, and then, inevitably, out at the shared world she evokes with such uncompromising clarity." --Hilma Wolitzer "There is no one quite like Ginzburg for telling it like it is. Her unique, immediately recognizable voice is at once clear and shaded, artless and sly, able to speak of the deepest sorrows and smallest pleasures of everyday life." --Phillip Lopate "[Ginzburg's] stories have a subtle power that catches you at the end. . . each sings with the characteristic wit and piercing clarity of prose that holds you rapt when you read her work." --Lauren Kane, The Paris Review Daily, "A glowing light of modern Italian literature . . . Ginzburg's magic is the utter simplicity of her prose, suddenly illuminated by one word that makes a lightning stroke of a plain phrase . . . As direct and clean as if it were carved in stone, it yet speaks thoughts of the heart." --Kate Simon, The New York Times "The raw beauty of Ginzburg's prose compels our gaze. First we look inward, with the shock of recognition inspired by all great writing, and then, inevitably, out at the shared world she evokes with such uncompromising clarity." --Hilma Wolitzer "There is no one quite like Ginzburg for telling it like it is. Her unique, immediately recognizable voice is at once clear and shaded, artless and sly, able to speak of the deepest sorrows and smallest pleasures of everyday life." --Phillip Lopate "[Ginzburg's] stories have a subtle power that catches you at the end. . . each sings with the characteristic wit and piercing clarity of prose that holds you rapt when you read her work." --Lauren Kane, The Paris Review Daily "Lucid, witty, and heartbreaking. . . [ Family is] a superb, unforgettable feast. . . . These two novellas are suffused with the rigorous wisdom Ginzburg earned through calamity and her determination to persist nonetheless in her work." --Lynne Sharon Schwartz, The Los Angeles Review of Books "There is perhaps no greater archivist of the family lexicon than the Italian novelist Natalia Ginzburg. . . She believed that the words and stories 'heard and repeated countless times' in childhood constituted a 'dictionary of our past'--and, at least in her case, created the conditions for 'family unity.' . . . [Ginzburg] reflects the unvarnished way that close relatives really communicate." --Jess Bergman, Jewish Currents
Afterword by
Gudas, Erica
Lccn
2020-013641
Dewey Decimal
853.912
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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