| A Place to Live: And Other Selected Essays of Natalia Ginzburg Contributor(s): Ginzburg, Natalia (Author), Schwartz, Lynne Sharon (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1583224742 ISBN-13: 9781583224748 Publisher: Seven Stories Press OUR PRICE: $21.60 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2002 Annotation: A Place to Live is a wide-ranging collection from one of the foremost Italian writers of the 20th century. With an unerring eye and unparalleled eloquence, Natalia Ginzburg observes everything around her, sparing no one least of all herself. In these essays, most published here in English for the first time, Ginzburg writes honestly and insightfully about being a writer and mother, being displaced during World War II, and experiencing deprivation in postwar Italy. Some of these essays are travel or mood pieces in which the author uses a particular place or season to evoke interior landscapes. The longest essay, recalling a case in which the government took an infant girl away from her adoptive parents, reveals the fusion of Ginzburgs life and work. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Literary Collections | European - General - Biography & Autobiography | Women |
| Dewey: 854.912 |
| LCCN: 2002001559 |
| Physical Information: 0.84" H x 5.81" W x 8.54" (0.70 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Germany |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Arguably one of Italy's greatest contemporary writers, Natalia Ginzburg has been best known in America as a writer's writer, quiet beloved of her fellow wordsmiths. This collection of personal essays chosen by the eminent American writer Lynne Sharon Schwartz from four of Ginzburg's books written over the course of Ginzburg's lifetime was a many-years long project for Schwartz. These essays are deeply felt, but also disarmingly accessible. Full of self-doubt and searing insight, Ginzburg is merciless in her attempts to describe herself and her world--and yet paradoxically, her self-deprecating remarks reveal her deeper confidence in her own eye and writing ability, as well as the weight and nuance of her exploration of the conflict between humane values and bureaucratic rigidity. |