Hailed upon publication as a groundbreaking memoir, giving the form "a new dimension, new possibilities, and . . . an aspect that is entirely new" ("Times Literary Supplement"), " Family Sayings" is Natalia Ginzburg's masterpiece and a classic of contemporary Italian literature. Although it asks to [...]
Natalia Ginzburg, arguably the most important woman writer of postwar Italy, always spoke of herself with irrepressible modesty. The woman who claimed she "never managed to climb up mountains" in fact wrote the history of 20th-century Italy through more than 20 books, chronicling fascism, war and th[...]
Natalia Ginzburg (1916-1991) is today recognized as one of the foremost woman writers to emerge from twentieth-century Italy. The Complete Short Stories of Natalia Ginzburg brings together in English translation for the first time the eight short stories that Ginzburg wrote between 1933 and 1965. T[...]
The city is Rome, the hub of Italian life and culture. The house is "Le Margherite, " a home where the sprawling cast of "The City and the House" is welcome. At the center of this lush epistolary novel is Lucrezia, mother of five and lover of many. Among her lovers--and perhaps the father of one of [...]
"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 co[...]
Teaterpjäs: Äktenskapskomedi med svärmorsproblem. En förlagd hatt spelar stor roll.
Natalia Ginzburg (1916-1991) räknas som en av den italienska efterkrigslitteraturens främsta författare. Hennes mest kända litterära verk är romanen Familjen, för vilken hon mottog det prestigefyllda Stregapriset 1963. Utöver romaner, noveller och teaterpjäser skrev hon ett stort antal ess�[...]