It's Hard to Talk About Yourself - $25.00 - Ginzburg, Natalia; Garboli, Cesare (EDT); Ginzburg, Lisa (EDT); Quirke, Louise (TRN); Garboli, Cesare; Ginzburg, Lisa; Sinibaldi, Marino - 9780226296883

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It's Hard to Talk About Yourself
Ginzburg, Natalia
Garboli, Cesare (EDT)
Ginzburg, Lisa (EDT)
Quirke, Louise (TRN)
Garboli, Cesare
Ginzburg, Lisa
Sinibaldi, Marino
Hardcover
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BOOK SUMMARY
Natalia Ginzburg, arguably the most important woman writer of postwar Italy, always spoke of herself with irrepressible modesty. Yet the woman who claimed she "never managed to climb up mountains" in fact wrote the history of twentieth-century Italy with

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BOOK SYNOPSIS
Natalia Ginzburg, arguably the most important woman writer of postwar Italy, always spoke of herself with irrepressible modesty. Yet the woman who claimed she "never managed to climb up mountains" in fact wrote the history of twentieth-century Italy with her sparse and captivating prose, chronicling Fascism, war, and the Nazi occupation as well as the intimacies of family life.

Ginzburg's marriage to Leone Ginzburg, who met his death at the hands of the Nazis for his anti-Fascists activities, and her work for the Einaudi publishing house placed her squarely in the center of Italian political and cultural life. But whether writing about the Turin of her childhood, the Abruzzi countryside, where her family was interned during World War II, or contemporary Rome, Ginzburg never shied away from the traumas of history-even if she approached them only indirectly, through the mundane details and catastrophes of personal life.

Intensely reserved, Ginzburg said that she "crept toward autobiography stealthily like a wolf." But she did openly discuss her life and her work in an extraordinary series of interviews for Italian radio in 1990. Never before published in English, It's Hard to Talk about Yourself presents a vivid portrait of Ginzburg in her own words on the forces that shaped her remarkable life-politics, publishing, literature, and family. This fluid translation will join Ginzburg's autobiography, Family Sayings, as one of the most important records of her life and, as the editors write in their preface, "the last, unexpected, original book by Natalia Ginzburg."

BOOK EXCERPTS
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AUTHOR BIO
Natalia Ginzburg (1916-1991) wrote novels, short stories, poems, plays, and essays and translated Proust and Flaubert. In 1983, she was elected to the Italian Parliament, where she served almost until her death. Among her many books are The Road to the City: Two Novellas (1942), Valentino (1957), Family Sayings (1963), Never Must You Ask Me (1970), and The Manzoni Family (1983).

Louise Quirke is a professional translator who has worked for Editore Laterza and the University of Cambridge Press.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface by Lisa Ginzburg
Editors' Note
1. From Turati to Ginzburg
2. Working Life
3. The Job of the Writer
4. The Plays
5. Interlocutors
6. Family and Bourgeoisie
7. Politics
Index

MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0226296881
ISBN(13-digit): 9780226296883
Dewey Decimal: 853/.912
Library of Congress: 2002153254
Book Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
Language: ENG
Binding: Sewn
No. of Pages: 202
Paper Weight (lb): 0.85

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