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."

It's Hard to Talk about Yourself

Literature & Fiction

NATALIA GINZBURG

Cesare Garboli

Lisa Ginzburg

Louise Quirke

History & Criticism

University of Chicago Press

In the pervasive atmosphere of la dolce vita, one of Italy's foremost novelists has created the compelling and powerful portrait of a family of modern Romans.
Breaking with its influence ar Michael, a revolutionary in exile, and Mara, who may or may not have borne his child and who drifts from place to pace and bed to bed because there's no reason not to.
Meanwhile, struggling to hold her family together, is Adriana, Michael's mother, 43, divorced, abandoned by her lover- and despairing of Michael's and Mara's values while paying the price of her own.
Ginzburg creates a marvelous and saddening world... in a sense, the world of the Finzi-Continis. She creates a whole society of irretrievable lost dreams.

No Way

Avon/Books

Depicts the author's experiences growing up in an assimilated Jewish family in Italy during the 1930s and 1940s

Family Sayings (Paladin Books)

British & Irish

Paladin

Four Novellas

HarperCollins, Publishers

Ti Ho Sposato Per Allegria (Easy Reader)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

John Murray

Voices in the Evenin

Arcade Publishing, Incorporated

<p>Two novellas explore the decay of the famiy and complex familial relationships</p>

Family: Family and Borghesia, Two Novellas

Henry Holt Co.

Easy Readers - Italian - Level 1: Ti Ho Sposato Per Allegria (Italian Edition)

European Schoolbooks Limited

Family & Borghesia

Contemporary

Carcanet Press Ltd.

TI Ho Sposato Per Allegria

Teen & Young Adult

Education & Reference

Emc Pub.

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