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FAMILY LEXICON
NATALIA GINZBURG
UYU 690
UYU 587
UYU 518
PREVENTA
Temática: LITERATURA EN INGLÉS
Editorial: NYRB CLASSICS
Cantidad de páginas: 224
Peso: 400000g
ISBN: 9781590178386
A masterpiece of European literature that blends family memoir and fiction
An Italian family, sizable, with its routines and rituals, crazes, pet phrases, and stories, doubtful, comical, indispensable, comes to life in the pages of Natalia Ginzburgs Family Lexicon. Giuseppe Levi, the father, is a scientist, consumed by his work and a mania for hikingwhen he isnt 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 Mussolinis 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 languageand 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.
An Italian family, sizable, with its routines and rituals, crazes, pet phrases, and stories, doubtful, comical, indispensable, comes to life in the pages of Natalia Ginzburgs Family Lexicon. Giuseppe Levi, the father, is a scientist, consumed by his work and a mania for hikingwhen he isnt 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 Mussolinis 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 languageand 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.
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