Natalia Ginzburg, who died in 1991, published this, one of her last novels, in 1985. Written entirely in letter-form it follows the fortunes of a group of friends when one of them, Giuseppe, leaves his flat in Rome where he has lived for more than twenty years, to go and live with his brother in [...]
“Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
So ran the maxim of Gustave Flaubert, which is probably why, after his father’s death, he lived with his mother in their country home until he was fifty years old. Despite this he maintained his [...]
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