Of course Family Lexicon cannot possibly recover …
Family Lexicon
by
Natalia Ginzburg
Oct. 7, 2024 - Oct. 7, 2024
(fiction, memoirs)
Ginzburg, N. (1963). Family Lexicon. NYRB Classics.
p.219
postwar Italy is in ruins
p.213
there is also an unmistakable gravity
Ginzburg is not an ostentatious writer. Her prose…
p.211
timid when circumstances demanded something more
By the time she was writing Family Lexicon, Ginzb…
p.84
Jews are notoriously ugly
“He is someone,” my mother said, “who is very sop…
p.76
you're bored because you have no inner life
“I’m bored!” my mother said. “I have nothing to d…