Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Editors’ Foreword vii
4. Credits x
5. Chronology xi
6. Contributors xv
7. Introduction 1
8. An Interview with Natalia Ginzburg 10
9. Natalia Ginzburg between Fiction and Memory: A Reading of Le voci della sera and Lessico famigliare 32
10. Natalia Ginzburg’s Early Writings in L’ltalia libera 46
11. Natalia Ginzburg: Making a Story Out of History 63
12. The Personal Is Political: Gender, Generation, and Memory in Natalia Ginzburg’s Caro Michele 89
13. Writing the Self: The Epistolary Novels of Natalia Ginzburg 99
14. Sagittarius: A Psychoanalytic Reading 122
15. Natalia Ginzburg and the Craft of Writing 153
16. The Eloquence of Understatement: Natalia Ginzburg’s Public Image and Literary Style 179
17. Feminism and the ‘Absurd’ in Two Plays by Natalia Ginzburg 197
18. I nostri figli 226
19. Chiarezza 230
20. Cronaca di un paese 234
21. The Wig 242
22. Bibiliography 249