The Dry Heart - Natalia Ginzburg
13
September
2024
epub | 7.2 MB | English| Isbn:9780811228794 | Author: Natalia Ginzburg, Frances Frenaye (Translator) | Year: 1947
Description:
Finally back in print, a frighteningly lucid feminist horror story about marriage
The Dry Heart begins and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement: "I shot him between the eyes." As the tale—a plunge into the chilly waters of loneliness, desperation, and bitterness—proceeds, the narrator's murder of her flighty husband takes on a certain logical inevitability. Stripped of any preciousness or sentimentality, Natalia Ginzburg's writing here is white-hot, tempered by rage. She transforms the unhappy tale of an ordinary dull marriage into a rich psychological thriller that seems to beg the question: why don't more wives kill their husbands?
The Dry Heart begins and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement: "I shot him between the eyes." As the tale—a plunge into the chilly waters of loneliness, desperation, and bitterness—proceeds, the narrator's murder of her flighty husband takes on a certain logical inevitability. Stripped of any preciousness or sentimentality, Natalia Ginzburg's writing here is white-hot, tempered by rage. She transforms the unhappy tale of an ordinary dull marriage into a rich psychological thriller that seems to beg the question: why don't more wives kill their husbands?
Category:Fiction, Literature, World Fiction, Peoples & Cultures - Fiction, Fiction Subjects, Italian Fiction, Jewish Fiction & Literature, Love & Relationships - Fiction, Crimes - Fiction, Literary Styles & Movements - Fiction, 20th Century Italian Fiction, Italian Women, Jewish-Italian Fiction, Marriage - Fiction, Murder - Fiction, Novellas
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