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3.7 AVERAGE
3.7 AVERAGE
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
“There were girls going to school, they were going to the beach in the summer, they danced, and kidded around among themselves. Why wasn’t I with them? Why wasn’t my life like that?”
The traumatic loss of girlhood, adulthood as a coarsening, poisoning sickness, a pervasive melancholy. Despite this thesis Delia gets a relatively happy ending, but continues to be unhappy in her life because she has failed to see a possible potential for true love before it's too late - she's not an optimist by nature, clearly.
Not extreme enough for my tastes I think - much like Tanizaki's Naomi, which I coincidentally read just before this. Both feature women whose childhoods are disrupted and ended by older men who want to use them sexually but both Naomi and Delia ultimately gain some kind of power over them through hardening their hearts against tenderness, as they are able to frighten their men into some level of devotion. It feels quite real but also somewhat ambivalent - is this a tragedy? or is it just the inevitable reality of societies that devalue love but harshly enforce partnership? The potential for other relationships which may be happier are continually suggested to exist, but are just out of reach for both women.
The traumatic loss of girlhood, adulthood as a coarsening, poisoning sickness, a pervasive melancholy. Despite this thesis Delia gets a relatively happy ending, but continues to be unhappy in her life because she has failed to see a possible potential for true love before it's too late - she's not an optimist by nature, clearly.
Not extreme enough for my tastes I think - much like Tanizaki's Naomi, which I coincidentally read just before this. Both feature women whose childhoods are disrupted and ended by older men who want to use them sexually but both Naomi and Delia ultimately gain some kind of power over them through hardening their hearts against tenderness, as they are able to frighten their men into some level of devotion. It feels quite real but also somewhat ambivalent - is this a tragedy? or is it just the inevitable reality of societies that devalue love but harshly enforce partnership? The potential for other relationships which may be happier are continually suggested to exist, but are just out of reach for both women.
fast-paced
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
sad
medium-paced
"Pensaba en mi vida anterior, en la ciudad a la que iba todos los días, en el camino que lleva a la ciudad y que había recorrido en todas las estaciones, durante tantos años. Recordaba bien aquel camino, los montones de piedras, los setos, el río que aparecía de pronto y el concurrido puente que llevaba a la plaza mayor"
El camino que va a la ciudad y otros relatos, 1942
Natalia Ginzburg
Traducción de Andrés Barba
@acantiladoeditorial 2019
Delia tiene 16 años y vive con sus padres y hermanos en una pequeña y mísera casa en el campo italiano de los años cuarenta. Desea desesperadamente escapar del asfixiante ambiente familiar y vivir en la ciudad, tal como ha hecho su hermana mayor Azalea.
Durante el destierro decretado por el gobierno de Mussolini en un pequeño pueblo de los Abruzzos que sufrieron por sus ideas antifascistas ella y su marido, publicó esta novela con seudónimo a causa de las leyes raciales.
Tras la tortura y muerte de su esposo y su posterior liberación a finales de 1944, reeditaría su primera novela con su nombre.
Narrada con un estilo desnudo, simple y descarnado en ocasiones, retrata la pobreza, la pérdida de las ilusiones juveniles y el peso de las decisiones.
El relato que da título a este volumen está acompañado de tres más, retazos fugaces de vidas frustradas e incomprendidas.
Para el reto #leeconmaria_escritorasitalianas
#elcaminoquevaalaciudad #nataliaginzburg #leoautoras #escritorasitalianas #ebiblio
El camino que va a la ciudad y otros relatos, 1942
Natalia Ginzburg
Traducción de Andrés Barba
@acantiladoeditorial 2019
Delia tiene 16 años y vive con sus padres y hermanos en una pequeña y mísera casa en el campo italiano de los años cuarenta. Desea desesperadamente escapar del asfixiante ambiente familiar y vivir en la ciudad, tal como ha hecho su hermana mayor Azalea.
Durante el destierro decretado por el gobierno de Mussolini en un pequeño pueblo de los Abruzzos que sufrieron por sus ideas antifascistas ella y su marido, publicó esta novela con seudónimo a causa de las leyes raciales.
Tras la tortura y muerte de su esposo y su posterior liberación a finales de 1944, reeditaría su primera novela con su nombre.
Narrada con un estilo desnudo, simple y descarnado en ocasiones, retrata la pobreza, la pérdida de las ilusiones juveniles y el peso de las decisiones.
El relato que da título a este volumen está acompañado de tres más, retazos fugaces de vidas frustradas e incomprendidas.
Para el reto #leeconmaria_escritorasitalianas
#elcaminoquevaalaciudad #nataliaginzburg #leoautoras #escritorasitalianas #ebiblio
emotional
medium-paced
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes