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Cos'è più la virtù
Il romanzo racconta la storia di una donna, dei suoi viaggi, delle sue esperienze: innamorata del marito che se ne è andato, riceve le più diverse profferte d'amore. Ma la sua risposta è sempre no. La vera trasgressione è dunque una fedeltà non richiesta? "Non è facile trovare nella narrativa italiana scrittrici che propongano una lettura ironica e umoristica della realtà. Fernanda Pivano ci è riuscita nel suo primo libro di narrativa".
212 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1986
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About the author
Fernanda Pivano
175 books26 followersFernanda Pivano was an Italian writer, journalist, translator and critic.
Pivano was born in Genoa in 1917. When she was a teenager she moved with her family to Turin where she attended the Massimo D'Azeglio Lyceum. There she met Cesare Pavese, who introduced her and her classmate Primo Levi to American literature. In 1941 she received a laurea (doctoral degree) with a thesis on Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, which earned her a prize from the Center for American Studies in Rome. In 1943 she obtained a second degree in philosophy. In the same year she completed her first translation, the Italian edition of the Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters for Einaudi.
In 1948, Pivano met Ernest Hemingway. It turned out to be the beginning of an intense professional relationship and friendship that would last until Hemingway's death in 1961. In 1949 Pivano married designer and architect Ettore Sottsass and moved to Milan, where she would live for the rest of her life. Pivano made her first trip to the United States in 1956 and throughout her professional life she contributed to the diffusion of the most significant American writers in Italy,
She is remembered to have had very intimate friendships with the writers popularised in Italy and with she work with as Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gregory Corso, Neal Cassady, Ezra Pound, Charles Bukowski, Bob Dylan. Chuck Palahniuk and many others.
She also worked with various Italian beat writers, with LGBTQ+ activist Mario Mieli and with singer/songwriter Fabrizio De André.
She published many studies on American literature, two novels and two volumes of diaries.
Pivano was born in Genoa in 1917. When she was a teenager she moved with her family to Turin where she attended the Massimo D'Azeglio Lyceum. There she met Cesare Pavese, who introduced her and her classmate Primo Levi to American literature. In 1941 she received a laurea (doctoral degree) with a thesis on Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, which earned her a prize from the Center for American Studies in Rome. In 1943 she obtained a second degree in philosophy. In the same year she completed her first translation, the Italian edition of the Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters for Einaudi.
In 1948, Pivano met Ernest Hemingway. It turned out to be the beginning of an intense professional relationship and friendship that would last until Hemingway's death in 1961. In 1949 Pivano married designer and architect Ettore Sottsass and moved to Milan, where she would live for the rest of her life. Pivano made her first trip to the United States in 1956 and throughout her professional life she contributed to the diffusion of the most significant American writers in Italy,
She is remembered to have had very intimate friendships with the writers popularised in Italy and with she work with as Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gregory Corso, Neal Cassady, Ezra Pound, Charles Bukowski, Bob Dylan. Chuck Palahniuk and many others.
She also worked with various Italian beat writers, with LGBTQ+ activist Mario Mieli and with singer/songwriter Fabrizio De André.
She published many studies on American literature, two novels and two volumes of diaries.
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July 26, 2021
La protagonista di "Cos'è più la virtù" si è battuta a suo tempo per la liberazione sessuale ma a distanza rifiuta regolarmente le avances di vari maschi: donna matura, ha scelto la virtù.
Nell'epilogo, però, è l'autrice a parlare e quando un primo lettore le contesta: "il personaggio è falso, non corrisponde alla tua vera natura.", lei candidamente avverte: "ma il personaggio non è autobiografico, è inventato".
(In ogni caso, da Fernanda Pivano, qui all'esordio come scrittrice di narrativa, mi aspettavo di più.)
Nell'epilogo, però, è l'autrice a parlare e quando un primo lettore le contesta: "il personaggio è falso, non corrisponde alla tua vera natura.", lei candidamente avverte: "ma il personaggio non è autobiografico, è inventato".
(In ogni caso, da Fernanda Pivano, qui all'esordio come scrittrice di narrativa, mi aspettavo di più.)
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