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The Little Virtues 1. utgave
Natalia Ginzburg
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The Little Virtues 1. utgave
Natalia Ginzburg
?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 one?s 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 . . . Ginzburg?s 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
Media | Bøker Pocketbok (Bok med mykt omslag og limt rygg) |
Utgitt | 1. august 2013 |
ISBN13 | 9781611457971 |
Utgivere | Arcade Publishing |
Antall sider | 184 |
Mål | 140 × 206 × 13 mm · 136 g |
Språk | Engelsk |
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