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26 de may. de 2020 · A girl’s eyes are opened to the desperate fate of wives and mothers in this forceful new translation of a feminist classic set in early 20th-century Italy.
Aleramo's lightly fictionalized memoir presented a kaleidoscopic series of Italian images—the frenetic industrialism of the North, the miserable squalor of the country's backward areas to the...
9 de ago. de 2010 · A Woman by Aleramo, Sibilla, 1876-1960. Publication date 1980 Topics Women Publisher Berkeley : University of California Press Collection printdisabled; ...
What makes this book so fascinating is firstly the way Aleramo deeply examines her own motives and actions, including her attitude to marriage, her relationship with her mother, her father, her husband, her in-laws and others.
Aleramo's lightly fictionalized memoir presented a kaleidoscopic series of Italian images—the frenetic industrialism of the North, the miserable squalor of the country's backward areas to the South, fin de siècle Italian politics and literary life—all set in the framework of a drama admiringly characterized by Luigi Pirandello as "grim and power...
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7 de may. de 2020 · When her carefree, aspirational childhood in a seaside town is brought brutally to an end, the nameless narrator of Sibilla Aleramo's blazing autobiographical novel discovers the shocking reality of life for a woman in Italy at the dawn of the twentieth century.
- Sibilla Aleramo
A Woman gives Sibilla Aleramo a place among the major feminist writers of this century, and clearly she is the legitimate predecessor of such Italian women writers as Cialente, De Cespedes, Manzini, and Fallaci. Aleramo delivers her feminist message without open propaganda, and the message deepens and matures as the author-protagonist journeys
