Stockman Beryl - Family And Borghesia - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Two novellas about domestic life isolation and the passing of time by one of the finest Italian writers of the twentieth century. Carmine an architect and Ivana a translator lived together long ago and even had a child but the child died and their relationship fell apart and Carmine married Ninetta and their child is Dod who Carmine feels is a little dull and these days Carmine is still spending every evening with Ivana but Ninetta has nothing to say about that. Family the first of these two novellas from the 1970s is an examination at first comic then progressively dark about how time passes and life goes on and people circle around the opportunities they had missed missing more as they do until finally time is up. Borghesia about a widow who keeps acquiring and losing the Siamese cats she hopes will keep her company in her loneliness explores similar ground along with the confusions of feeling and domestic life that came with the loosening social strictures of the 1970s. She remembered saying that there were three things in life you should always refuse thinks one of Natalia Ginzburg's characters beginning to age out of youth: Hypocrisy resignation and unhappiness. But it was impossible to shield yourself from those three things. Life was full of them and there was no holding them back.
Title: Family And Borghesia
Author(s): Stockman Beryl
Publisher: The New York Review Of Books Inc
Barcode: 9781681375083
Pages: 120 Pages
Publication Date: 4/13/2021
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction