Rosaria Carpinelli Consulenze Editoriali

There are women writers who have made stories their life, turning their lives into a unrepeatable story. Dacia Maraini is one of them. Before the unmistakable blue of her eyes paraded a crowd of extraordinary characters, who between the pages of this novel of rare and happy narrative freedom take on body and voice to become a moving photograph of an Italy that no longer exists. Concita De Gregorio's intimate and acute gaze brings out from the background, like timeless snapshots, the figures of Fosco and Topazia, rebellious and courageous parents, her intellectual and artistic friends, from Pasolini to Maria Callas to Visconti, and then Moravia and the passions that inhabited Dacia's existence: feminism, theater, travel. And writing, finally, always and only writing, a faithful companion and thermometer of a life that could only be told as a novel.Interweaving and laying bare memories with the modesty and courage of the true writer, Concita De Gregorio leads us by the hand into the luminous rooms of memory of one of the most beloved authors of our time. Where exceptionality becomes the rule and the world our freedom.

Publication date: 03.11.2016
Publisher: Rizzoli