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The wrong door : the complete plays of Natalia Ginzburg / translated by Wendell Ricketts.
- Title
- The wrong door : the complete plays of Natalia Ginzburg / translated by Wendell Ricketts.
- Author
- Ginzburg, Natalia
- Publication
- Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2008.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PQ4817.I5 A2 2008 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Ricketts, Wendell
- Description
- xxxiii, 336 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "The Wrong Door is the first English-language translation of the complete plays of Italian writer Natalia Ginzburg (1916-1991). Bringing together the eleven plays Ginzburg wrote between 1965 and the months before her death, this volume directs attention to Ginzburg's unique talent as a dramatist. Ginzburg's plays, like her novels and short stories, are incisive, finely tuned studies of family drama, of the breakdown of relations between the sexes, and of the tribulations of Italian domestic life. The plays showcase Ginzburg's fearless social commentary, her stark and darkly comic observations of Italian life, and her prescient analyses of the socio-economic changes that have transformed modern Italy. Along the way, Ginzburg creates memorable female characters in a series of fascinating roles. In this fluent and faithful translation, Wendell Ricketts highlights Ginzburg's scalpel-sharp dialogue and lays bare the existential absurdities that lie at the heart of her plays."--Pub. desc.
- Series Statement
- Toronto Italian studies
- Uniform Title
- Toronto Italian studies
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Translations
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- I married you to cheer myself up -- The advertisement -- Strawberry and cream -- The secretary -- A town by the sea -- The wrong door -- Dialogue -- The wig -- The armchair -- The interview -- The cormorant.
- ISBN
- 9780802098481 (bound)
- 0802098487 (bound)
- 9780802095695 (pbk.)
- 0802095690 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2008276490
- OCLC
- 219938924
- SCSB-10574128
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library