Little Virtues (eBook)

Natalia Ginzburg (Autor)

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2016
999 Seiten
Arcade (Verlag)
978-1-62872-802-6 (ISBN)

Infos

As far as the education of children is concerned, states Natalia Ginzburg in this collection of her finest and best-known short essays, I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; not shrewdness but frankness and a love of truth; not tact but a love of ones neighbor and self-denial; not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know. Whether she writes of the loss of a friend, Cesare Pavese; or what is inexpugnable of World War II; or the Abruzzi, where she and her first husband lived in forced residence under Fascist rule; or the importance of silence in our society; or her vocation as a writer; or even a pair of worn-out shoes, Ginzburg brings to her reflections the wisdom of a survivor and the spare, wry, and poetically resonant style her readers have come to recognize.A glowing light of modern Italian literature . . . Ginzburgs magic is the utter simplicity of her prose, suddenly illuminated by one word that makes a lightning streak of a plain phrase. . . . As direct and clean as if it were carved in stone, it yet speaks thoughts of the heart. The New York Times Book Review

Autor

Natalia Ginzburg: Natalia Ginzburg was born in Palermo, Italy in 1916. She was an Italian author whose work explored family relationships, politics during and after the Fascist years and World War II, and philosophy. She wrote novels, short stories and essays, for which she received the Strega Prize and Bagutta Prize. Modest and intensely reserved, Ginzburg never shied away from the traumas of history, whether writing about the Turin of her childhood, the Abruzzi countryside or contemporary Rome—all the while approaching those traumas only indirectly, through the mundane details and catastrophes of personal life. Most of her works were also translated into English and published in the United Kingdom and United States. She wrote acclaimed translations of both Proust and Flaubert into Italian. She died in Rome in 1991.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.9.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
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• Schlagworte: 20th century authobiography philosophy essays • 20th century memoir • activist autobiography • activist memoir • Alessandra Torninparte • a light for fools • all our yesterdays • aphorism collection • Aphorisms • aphoristic style • book of aphorisms • book of phrases • collection of essays • essay book • existential essays • Existentialism • existential writing • family sayings • Fascist Italy • Human Condition • human corruption • human greed • Human Sickness • Jewish autobiography • Jewish memoir • la famiglia manzoni • le piccole vertu • le piccole vertù • lessico famigliare • light for fools • ME • meaning of love • natalia ginzburg silence • never must you ask me • philosophical books • philosophical thought • philosophizing • philosophy of decadence • pholosophical writing • phrase book • piccole vertu • piccole vertù • polemicist • quotes for graduation • quotes for speech • quotes for toast • silence by natalia ginzburg • teaching honesty how to live well • the city and the house • the dry heart • torninparte • truthfulness • voices in the evening • Western Philosophy • what is truth
• ISBN-10: 1-62872-802-7 / 1628728027
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62872-802-6 / 9781628728026