Las tareas de casa y otros ensayos

The loneliness of childhood and the sins of old age, the trappings of sex and the unexpected pleasure that hides behind the most boring domestic chores... Everything Natalia Ginzburg touched became art, without losing that corporeal quality of the newly discovered emotions, barely noted ideas, memories that still float on the surface. In these intense pieces, which the great writer was gathering throughout her life, we will find personal notes that bring them closer to the family Lexicon and portraits of friends such as Italo Calvino and Sandro Penna. There are also notes on novels and films that were highly topical at the time and are now classics of the 20th century, as well as political articles that are essential for understanding European history. With an apparently careless writing tone, with her way of proposing without imposing, with her attention always paid to small details, Natalia Ginzburg made the domestic an instrument to look at the world, a world that is still very much ours.