It's hard to talk about yourself
By: Natalia Ginzburg ; edited by Cesare Garboli and Lisa Ginzburg ; Translated by Louise Quirke.
Contributors: Garboli, Cesare.; Ginzburg, Lisa.; Sinibaldi, Marino.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
Subjects: Ginzburg, Natalia -- Interviews; Authors, Italian -- 20th century -- Interviews
Genres: Interviews.
Other titles: Antologia (Radio Program)
Description: "Natalia Ginzburg, arguably the most important woman writer of postwar Italy, always spoke of herself with irrepressible modesty. Yet the woman who claimed she "never managed to climb up mountains" in fact wrote the history of twentieth-century Italy with her sparse and captivating prose, chronicling Fascism, war, and the Nazi occupation as well as the intimacies of family life."

"Ginzburg's marriage to Leone Ginzburg, who met his death at the hands of the Nazis for his anti-fascist activities, and her work for the Einaudi publishing house placed her squarely in the center of Italian political and cultural life. But whether writing about the Turin of her childhood, the Abruzzi countryside where her family was interned during World War II, or contemporary Rome, Ginzburg never shied away from the traumas of history - even if she approached them only indirectly, through the mundane details and catastrophes of personal life."--Jacket.
Notes: Texts of conversations, conducted by Marino Sinibaldi,  from the radio program Antologia, transmitted on Radio Tre during four consecutive Sundays in May, 1990.
Includes index.