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L'arte Della Gioia (1998)

by Goliarda Sapienza(Favorite Author)

3.77 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

8806189468 (ISBN13: 9788806189464)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Einaudi

review 1: This is one of those books I would want to go back and read in the original Italian- Sapienza's fiction flows like a fever dream, recounting the days and passions of the romance of socialist ideals with a genuinely human and earthy perspective. Modesta is well and truly and unforgettable protagonist- and whether you disapprove of her or admire her, she will disturb you, she will get under your skin and change you, and maybe some day, you will go back to revisit her. A remarkable read.
review 2: This is one of the most sweeping, most intimate, most real and entangled, most allegorical and magestic, it's one of the grandest I've ever read. She reminds of an Italian Ayn Rand, with her "I really believe it, and live it!" at the end, but with staunchly anti fascist ... morepolitics, on the very far left, past the hopelessly conventional communists, isn't it funny that their lives, at opposite ends of the spectrum, seem to meet in some ways. less

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