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Bezig met laden... A Place to Live: and other selected essays ofdoor Natalia Ginzburg
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Arguably one of Italyâ??s greatest contemporary writers, Natalia Ginzburg has been best known in America as a writerâ??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 Ginzburgâ??s books written over the course of Ginzburgâ??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 worldâ??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 bureauc Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Ginzburg' writing reminds me of Joan Didion's. She is self-deprecating, describing herself as lazy, or slow, or unintelligent, or always fearful. And yet her essays are well-written with a flowing style. She can write with wit and an eye for detail. Big ideas are laid out with remarkable structure and precision, always getting right to the heart of the matter.
Some of these essays are dark, probably a result of growing up in a Jewish and anti-fascist family in Italy. Here were the standouts for me:
Human Relations: an essay on our relation to our world and its people as we grow from child to adult "knowing so well how the long chain of human relations takes its course, making its long navigable parable, the whole long road we have to travel to feel, at last, a bit of compassion." (1953)
The Son of Man: the seriousness of having "grown up" with war; earlier generations still think to older, better times; but those who have grown up with war cannot forget and always worry it can happen again. (1946)
A Place to Live: this is a funny chapter; in World War II Italy Natalia and her husband look for an apartment they can both agree on to buy. It takes months to find one.
Universal Compassion: a lament on being able to distinguish good and evil in any event, for there are, if we look hard enough, elements of both in every event. The only way we can be sure we are right is to take the side of the oppressed with universal compassion.
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