Natalia Ginzburg : : A Voice of the Twentieth Century / / Giuliana Katz, Angela M. Jeannet.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
• TeilnehmendeR: Jeannet, Angela M.,; Katz, Giuliana ,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Toronto Italian Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

A prominent and prolific Italian writer, Natalia Ginzburg (1916-1991) is known for her novels, plays, short stories, and essays. This collection brings together, for an English-speaking audience, a variety of critical perspectives on Ginzburg's work.The essays, all by North American scholars, examine the author's entire production. The topics examined include Ginzburg's struggle to define herself as a woman, a writer, and an intellectual; her interpretation of the relationship between historical events and private lives; her reflections on the women's movement and the changing nature of the family; and her mastery of a distinctly personal writing style. What emerges here is a nuanced and complex portrait of Ginzburg and her work. The reader is given a sense of the importance of her contribution, not only as a writer but as a witness to the events of the twentieth century. The volume also includes a chronology, a bibliography, and translations of some of Ginzburg's lesser-known writings, including three articles, a poem, and a one-act play.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Editors' Foreword -- Credits -- Chronology -- Contributors -- Introduction / West, Rebecca -- An Interview with Natalia Ginzburg / Boyers, Peg -- Natalia Ginzburg between Fiction and Memory: A Reading of Le voci della sera and Lessico famigliare / Fontanella, Luigi -- Natalia Ginzburg's Early Writings in L'ltalia libera / Ward, David -- Natalia Ginzburg: Making a Story Out of History / Jeannet, Angela M. -- The Personal Is Political: Gender, Generation, and Memory in Natalia Ginzburg's Caro Michele / Laurence Pastore, Judith -- Writing the Self: The Epistolary Novels of Natalia Ginzburg / Boyers, Peg -- Sagittarius: A Psychoanalytic Reading / Sanguinetti Katz, Giuliana -- Natalia Ginzburg and the Craft of Writing / Paulicelli, Eugenia -- The Eloquence of Understatement: Natalia Ginzburg's Public Image and Literary Style / Wienstein, Jen -- Feminism and the 'Absurd' in Two Plays by Natalia Ginzburg / Anderlini-D'Onofrio, Serena -- I nostri figli / Ginzburg, Natalia -- Chiarezza / Ginzburg, Natalia -- Cronaca di un paese / Ginzburg, Natalia -- The Wig / Ginzburg, Natalia -- Bibiliography