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Bezig met laden... Family and Borghesia (editie 2021)door Natalia Ginzburg (Auteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Borghesia is a true masterwork. ( ) This book is comprised of two novelettes by Ginzburg, who has become one of my auto-buy authors. (Every time I finish one of her books, I immediately set out the acquire a new one for my TBR shelf.) Both of these stories are about family, both by blood and chosen, and the series of events and decisions and non-decisions that make up a life. About how we are compelled to do things we don't fully understand until later, if at all, and the ties that bind us. I love her writing so much, though I still struggle to articulate exactly what I find so magical about her. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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"The first US publication of two 1977 novellas by painterly Italian minimalist Ginzburg (No Way; The City and the House). Set in modern Rome, both Family and Borghesia sketch the bittersweet passage of lives lived in gauzy tombs of indecision and gentle resignation. Carmine, the handsome, 40-ish architect of Family, cannot free himself from a loveless marriage to the pretty but vacuous Ninnetta. He consoles himself by gravitating back to the cluttered life of Ivana, an old lover with whom he had a child that died almost at birth--a child about whom nothing is said. Carmine offers sympathy when Ivana's lover commits suicide; Ivana cajoles and counsels when Carmine's wife takes a lover and Carmine reciprocates by taking a callous young lover of his own. The real center of his life, however, lies in the wasted afternoons and evenings he spends sitting in cafes and in haphazard apartments with Ivana and their respective children, waiting for life to happen--and Carmine discovers as much in the reflective hours before his premature death. In Borghesia, the gentle widow Ilaria is given a pet kitten. When it is killed, she gets another--when it is killed, she gets yet another, and this last cat will outlive her mistress. Quietly, Ilaria and her cats become the loving center of a whirling world of relatives and their shifting loves. As in Family, her life is savored only when it is past. Ginzburg has perfected an immaculate, between-the-lines style that's the Italian equivalent of Raymond Carver--though her territory is the gorgeous, amber-lit world of bourgeoisie Rome. Her delicately oblique sketches of unlived lives linger like the memory of afternoon sun across a table"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)853.912Literature Italian and related languages Italian fiction 1900- 20th Century 1900-1945LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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