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Goliarda Sapienza in Context
The present edited collection of essays on the Sicilian author Goliarda Sapienza includes contributions from established and emerging scholars working in the field of contemporary women’s writing. Essays in this volume examine Sapienza through multiple perspectives, taking into account the articulation of subjectivity through autobiographical writing and the complex representation of gender and sexual identities. Also considered here is Sapienza’s oblique position within the Italian literary canon, with contributions moving beyond isolated textual analyses whilst attempting to situate the author’s works within a framework of intertextual and contextual cultural references. Exploring the fertile network of explicit and implicit intersections with Italian and European literature (English and French in particular), as well as with Western philosophical thought in which Sapienza’s texts are embedded, this volume will provide an overdue contribution to the belated appraisal of an author whose due recognition is, in Cesare Garboli’s words, only a matter of time: “Time will work in favour of Goliarda Sapienza’s works. And this is not a wish; it is a certainty.”
The Art of Joy
Goliarda Sapienza's The Art of Joy was written over a nine year span, from 1967 to 1976. At the time of her death in 1996, Sapienza had published nothing in a decade, having been unable to find a publisher for what was to become her most celebrated work, due to its perceived immorality. One publisher's rejection letter exclaimed: 'It's a pile of iniquity.' The manuscript lay for decades in a chest finally being proclaimed a "forgotten masterpiece" when it was eventually published in 2005. This epic Sicilian novel, which begins in the year 1900 and follows its main character, Modesta, through nearly the entire span of the 20th century, is at once a coming-of-age novel, a tale of sexual advent...
Ritratto di Goliarda Sapienza
Sono ormai tanti i lettori che mi domandano di Goliarda Sapienza. Desidera giustamente ogni buon lettore conoscere di più da chi ha vissuto fino all’ultimo con la sua vita, e tanti anni ha passato con le sue opere. Chi era realmente Goliarda Sapienza. Un così forte interesse non può lasciarmi indifferente perché tocca un punto sensibile del mio passato con lei. Lascio questo ritratto che riflette per forza la Goliarda mia - il lettore è avvertito - con l'unico rammarico di non poter sapere se vi si sarebbe riconosciuta almeno un po'. Un gioco che m'avrebbe divertito.
Modern Classics the Art of Joy
Goliarda Sapienza's The Art of Joy was written over a nine year span, from 1967 to 1976. At the time of her death in 1996, Sapienza had published nothing in a decade, having been unable to find a publisher for what was to become her most celebrated work, due to its perceived immorality. One publisher's rejection letter exclaimed: 'It's a pile of iniquity.' The manuscript lay for decades in a chest finally being proclaimed a "forgotten masterpiece" when it was eventually published in 2005. This epic Sicilian novel, which begins in the year 1900 and follows its main character, Modesta, through nearly the entire span of the 20th century, is at once a coming-of-age novel, a tale of sexual advent...
Writing for Freedom
Goliarda Sapienza (1924-1996) is increasingly regarded as a central figure in modern Italian literature. This study follows her autofictional journey, identifying themes in her work such as freedom, the body, gender and sexuality, political commitment and social transformation.
Lettere e biglietti
Lettere e biglietti ci offre una nuova voce di Goliarda Sapienza, dopo quella dei romanzi autobiografici, dell’Arte della gioia e dei Taccuini. Sapienza scriveva lettere anche lunghissime, magari il giorno stesso di un incontro, col fine di chiarire quanto neppure una conversazione a quattr’occhi potesse farle sperare: credeva nella forza del documento scritto e prima di inviarlo ne faceva sempre una copia. Su questi testi si basa questa raccolta inedita, che copre un arco di più di quarant’anni del Novecento, dagli anni cinquanta fino a qualche mese prima della morte, avvenuta nel 1996. La scelta delle lettere racconta momenti cruciali dell’esistenza e del pensiero dell’autrice, ...
Goliarda
Un portrait unique de Goliarda Sapienza, l'autrice de L'Art de la joie. Angelo Pellegrino fut l'ultime compagnon de l'écrivaine italienne, et celui qui sauva son œuvre de l'oubli : il nous livre ici, comme une conclusion à son œuvre, le portrait d'une femme exceptionnelle et de l'amour qui les a unis. Fascinée par l'œuvre de Goliarda Sapienza, une jeune photographe italienne contacte Angelo Maria Pellegrino pour lui faire une proposition : elle souhaite se rendre avec lui à Gaeta, où le couple vécut ses dernières années. Angelo accepte et, à peine revenu dans les méandres de cette petite ville balnéaire à mi-chemin de Naples et de Rome, le voilà emporté par les souvenirs. Il...
A Man's Place
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A New York Times Notable Book Annie Ernaux's father died exactly two months after she passed her practical examination for a teaching certificate. Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labor, Ernaux's father had grown into a hard, practical man who showed his family little affection. Narrating his slow ascent towards material comfort, Ernaux's cold observation reveals the shame that haunted her father throughout his life. She scrutinizes the importance he attributed to manners and language that came so unnaturally to him as he struggled to provide for his family with a grocery store and cafe in rural France. Over the course of the book, Ernaux grows up to become the uncompromising observer now familiar to the world, while her father matures into old age with a staid appreciation for life as it is and for a daughter he cautiously, even reluctantly admires. A Man's Place is the companion book to her critically acclaimed memoir about her mother, A Woman's Story.
