• Recall this Book 56: Merve Emre on Natalia Ginzburg's "The Dry Heart"

    Author(s):
    Merve Emre, John Plotz
    Date:
    2021
    Subject(s):
    Literature
    Item Type:
    Podcast
    Tag(s):
    Books
    Permanent URL:
    https://doi.org/10.17613/jqkj-ey57
    Abstract:
    Like our podcast, B-Side Books focuses on those moments when books topple off their shelves, open up, and start bellowing at you. The one that buttonholed Merve Emre (Oxford literature professor and author most recently of The Personality Brokers) was a novella by the luminous midcentury Italian pessimist, Natalia Ginzburg. And if you think you know precisely why a mid-century Italian writer would have a dark and bitter view of the world (already thinking of the Nazi shadows in work by Italo Calvino, Primo Levi and Giorgio Bassani) Ginzburg's The Dry Heart will have you thinking again. Merve started her piece by asking that age-old question: "When should a woman kill her husband?"
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    Pub. URL:
    https://newbooksnetwork.com/56-recall-this-b-side-1-merve-emre-on-natalia-ginzburgs-the-dry-heart
    Publisher:
    Brandeis University
    Pub. Date:
    06/03/2021
    Episode:
    56
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    12 months ago
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