Natalia Ginzburg

The Little Virtues (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'I really love and admire The Little Virtues.' -- Zadie Smith 'Ginzburg gives us a new template for the female voice and an idea of what it might sound like.' -- Rachel Cusk 'As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones.' Between 1944 and 1960, Natalia Ginzburg wrote The Little Virtues, a collection of eleven vivid portraits of life that are central to her legacy as one of the greatest Italian writers of the twentieth century. From the Italian countryside, where she and her husband lived in exile under fascist rule, to the melancholy streets of 1960s London, Ginzburg explores loneliness and belonging against the backdrop of post-war Europe. In The Little Virtues, Ginzburg takes familiar objects and experiences – worn-out shoes, money boxes, meatballs, childhood, silence – and transforms them into subjects of great significance. While haunted by the political events of the time, Ginzburg rests her gaze on the human intimacies that shape and define our lives: friendships, marriage and parenthood. She describes her longest relationship – with her writing – in a definitive piece on vocation and motherhood, while her groundbreaking essay on raising children remains as vital as the day it was written. The Little Virtues is a poignant portrait of Italy in the twentieth century and a singular work of memoir: intrepid, wise and dazzling. 'If Ferrante is a friend, Ginzburg is a mentor.' -- Lara Feigel, Guardian 'A punch-you-in-the-stomach-with-grief-and-beauty masterpiece.' -- Maggie Nelson 'A profound commentary on Italian life.' -- Tim Parks, London Review of Books 'This reissue of a twentieth century classic contains 11 essays of wisdom that'll leave you seeing the world from a new perspective.' -- Emerald Street Translated by Dick Davis

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Daunt Books
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781911547150
• Artikelnr.: 52411371

Autorenporträt

Natalia Ginzburg was born in Palermo, Italy in 1916. She was an Italian author whose work explored family relationships, politics during and after the Fascist years and World War II, and philosophy. She wrote novels, short stories and essays, for which she received the Strega Prize and Bagutta Prize. Modest and intensely reserved, Ginzburg never shied away from the traumas of history, whether writing about the Turin of her childhood, the Abruzzi countryside or contemporary Rome—all the while approaching those traumas only indirectly, through the mundane details and catastrophes of personal life. Most of her works were also translated into English and published in the United Kingdom and United States. She wrote acclaimed translations of both Proust and Flaubert into Italian. She died in Rome in 1991.