by Natalia Ginzburg · LUMEN · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788426424273
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«Léxico familiar» is the autobiographical novel by Natalia Ginzburg, published by Lumen in paperback, with 272 pages, in Spanish.
Natalia Ginzburg reconstructs her childhood and youth within the Levi family, a Jewish and anti-fascist family from Turin (1930-1950). Through the private expressions of the home, which become a secret language, she portrays her parents, siblings, friends, and intellectuals of the era as anti-fascist Italy seeps into everyday life.
The work, originally published as Lessico famigliare in 1963, received the Strega Prize. The edition in the Narrativa collection includes a prologue by Elena Medel and a translation by Mercedes Corral.
For readers of memoirs and Italian fiction, and for those seeking an intimate perspective on family life in twentieth-century Italy.
Natalia Levi Ginzburg was an Italian author whose work explored family relationships, politics during and after the Fascist years and World War II, and philosophy. She wrote novels, short stories and essays, for which she received the Strega Prize and Bagutta Prize. Most of her works were also translated into English and published in the United Kingdom and the United States.
