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Descrizione libro Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Natalia Ginzburg begins A Family Lexicon with an unusual disclaimer: "The places, events and people are all real. I have invented nothing. Every time that I have found myself inventing something in accordance with my old habits as a novelist, I have felt impelled at once to destroy everything thus invented." In A Family Lexicon fiction is under the control of fact, and the result is a novel that recreates the small world of a family enduring some of the most difficult years of the twentieth century-spanning the period from the rise of Mussolini through World War II, in which Ginzburg's husband fought for the resistance and was killed by the Nazis-with passionate objectivity. Every family has its store of phrases and sayings by which it maintains its sense both of what it means to be a family and of what sets it apart as one particular family. This lexicon, these shared understandings, these stories, not by any means always to be relied on and sometimes not a little ridiculous, lie at the heart of a great novel about family and history. A novel that recreates the small world of a family enduring some of the most difficult years of the twentieth century-spanning the period from the rise of Mussolini through World War II, in which Ginzburg's husband fought for the resistance and was killed by the Nazis - with passionate objectivity. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9781590178386
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Descrizione libro paperback. Condizione: New. Main. "Product DescriptionA masterpiece of European literature that blends family memoir and fictionAn Italian family, sizable, with its routines and rituals, crazes, pet phrases, and stories, doubtful, comical, indispensable, comes to life in the pages of Natalia Ginzburg s Family Lexicon. Giuseppe Levi, the father, is a scientist, consumed by his work and a mania for hiking-when he isn t provoked into angry remonstration by someone misspeaking or misbehaving or wearing the wrong thing. Giuseppe is Jewish, married to Lidia, a Catholic, though neither is religious; they live in the industrial city of Turin where, as the years pass, their children find ways of their own to medicine, marriage, literature, politics. It is all very ordinary, except that the background to the story is Mussolini s Italy in its steady downward descent to race law and world war. The Levis are, among other things, unshakeable anti-fascists. That will complicate their lives.Family Lexicon is about a family and language-and about storytelling not only as a form of survival but also as an instrument of deception and domination. The book takes the shape of a novel, yet everything is true. "Every time that I have found myself inventing something in accordance with my old habits as a novelist, I have felt impelled at once to destroy [it]," Ginzburg tells us at the start. "The places, events, and people are all real."Review"It s life-changingly good. It s a lesson in how to live." -Monica Ali, Elle"Jenny McPhee s new translation reads as more contemporary, immediate, and dynamic. Critically, McPhee s translation emphasizes how language operates within the closed system of a family In Family Lexicon, familiar words and phrases are the fragments that conjure glimpses of a more complete world, summon what and who has been lost and allow them to continue, to coalesce, condense, collapse. To be carried away, yes, and to carry on." -Emily LaBarge, Bookforum"One of Italy s finest postwar writers. . . . If Elena Ferrante is a master of the sprawling, unputdownable epic, Ginzburg is a miniaturist. Her themes are buried in gestures, fragments, absences-not in what is said, but in what is not said. . . . Her masterpiece-the hyperbole is warranted-is Family Lexicon." -Negar Azimi, Bookforum"The raw beauty of Ginzburg s prose compels our gaze. First we look inward, with the shock of recognition inspired by all great writing, and then, inevitably, out at the shared world she evokes with such uncompromising clarity." -Hilma Wolitzer"There is no one quite like Ginzburg for telling it like it is. Her unique, immediately recognizable voice is at once clear and shaded, artless and sly, able to speak of the deepest sorrows and smallest pleasures of everyday life." -Phillip Lopate"A glowing light of modern Italian literature.Ginzburg s magic is the utter simplicity of her prose, suddenly illuminated by one word that makes a lightning stroke of a plain phrase.As direct and clean as if it were carved in stone, it yet speaks thoughts of the heart." -Kate Simon, The New York Times"Family Lexicon recalls the great modernists reimaginings of childhood - Joyce, Compton-Burnett, Katherine Mansfield, parts of Italo Svevo s Zeno s Conscience, and, farther back, Swann s Way." -Eric Gudas, Los Angeles Review of Books"Ginzburg was a masterful writer, a witty, elegant prose stylist, and a fiercely intelligent thinker .This 1963 novel, newly translated by novelist McPhee, is a genre-defying work. It reads like a memoir, but it doesn t adhere to the conventions of either fiction or nonfiction ."The lore of her large, loving, and discordant family provides rich material for Ginzburg s engrossing autobiographical novel." -Publishers Weekly"The atmosphere of the book is so clear and immediate that reading it is like being there or seeing a film." -The Christian Science Monitor"Her simplicity is an achievement, hard-won and remarkable, and the more welcome in a litera". Codice articolo BKZN9781590178386