An edition of Lessico famigliare (1963)

Lexico Familiar

  • 3.00 ·
  • 2 Ratings
  • 13 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 5 Have read
Not in Library

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list

Check-In

×Close
Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
Today

  • 3.00 ·
  • 2 Ratings
  • 13 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 5 Have read

Buy this book

Last edited by kathrinpassig
January 7, 2024 | History
An edition of Lessico famigliare (1963)

Lexico Familiar

  • 3.00 ·
  • 2 Ratings
  • 13 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 5 Have read

"Natalia Ginzburg, one of Italy's great writers, introduced A Family Lexicon, her most celebrated work, with an unusual disclaimer: "The places, events and people are all real. I have invented nothing. Every time that I have found myself inventing something in accordance with my old habits as a novelist, I have felt impelled at once to destroy everything thus invented." A Family Lexicon re-creates with extraordinary objectivity the small world of a family enduring some of the most difficult years of the twentieth century, the period from the rise of Mussolini through World War II (Ginzburg's first husband, who was a member of the resistance, was killed by the Nazis) and its immediate aftermath. Every family has its store of phrases and sayings by which it maintains its sense of what it means to be a family. Such sayings and stories lie at the heart of a great novel about family and history"--

Publish Date
Publisher
Lumeneditorial, LUMEN
Language
Spanish
Pages
272

Buy this book

Previews available in: English

Edition Availability
Cover of: Lexico Familiar
Lexico Familiar
March 30, 2007, Lumeneditorial, LUMEN
Paperback in Spanish
Cover of: Family sayings
Family sayings
1984, Carcanet
in English
Cover of: The Things We Used to Say
The Things We Used to Say
Publish date unknown, Arcade Publishing

Add another edition?

Book Details


The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
272

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL13226125M
ISBN 10
8426416004
ISBN 13
9788426416001
Library Thing
142730
Goodreads
1447790

Source records

amazon.com record

Links outside Open Library

Community Reviews (0)

Feedback?
No community reviews have been submitted for this work.

Lists

This work does not appear on any lists.

History

Download catalog record: RDF / JSON / OPDS | Wikipedia citation
January 7, 2024 Edited by kathrinpassig Merge works
March 31, 2023 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
August 17, 2010 Edited by IdentifierBot added LibraryThing ID
April 24, 2010 Edited by Open Library Bot Fixed duplicate goodreads IDs.
April 30, 2008 Created by an anonymous user Imported from amazon.com record