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賮囟蹖賱鬲 賴丕蹖 賳丕趩賷夭
Questa raccolta di saggi e articoli, scritti in vari anni dalla Ginzburg, affinano e migliorano il suo stile, dimostrando le straordinarie capacit脿 comunicative dell'autrice. Questo libro, pubblicato tra due grandi opere come Le voci della sera e Lessico famigliare, non risulta ridimensionato dall'accostamento con le due opere pi霉 celebri della scrittice.
Le piccole virt霉 presenta abbozzi, riflessioni e constatazioni della realt脿 che circondava la Ginzburg: l'ambiente londinese dove viveva, il suo rapporto con il secondo marito, tra passione e incomprensione, episodi rievocati di un'infanzia e una giovinezza trascorsa da tempo ma mai dimenticate.
Il titolo della raccolta, di carattere antifrastico, chiarifica che, per l'autrice, le piccole virt霉, che consistono soprattutto in un'ostentato perbenismo e in una bonomia di maniera, sconsiderata e semplicistica, sono le principali cause di incomprensione, semplicioneria, stupidit脿, dolori e sofferenze. Il tutto ci viene presentato nel consueto stile diretto, immediato ma sapientemente evocativo, con cui la Ginzburg manifestava una dote di ingenuit脿 che riesce ad arrivare al nocciolo delle vicende e dei problemi. Questo stile 猫 capace, con pochi tratteggi, di rievocare atmosfere e ambienti, non solo fisici, ma soprattutto mentali, e questa ingenuo candore misto a acuta ponderatezza riescono a dare a quest'opera il tocco di maestria che tramuta una raccolta di saggi in un grande lavoro artistico.
Le piccole virt霉 presenta abbozzi, riflessioni e constatazioni della realt脿 che circondava la Ginzburg: l'ambiente londinese dove viveva, il suo rapporto con il secondo marito, tra passione e incomprensione, episodi rievocati di un'infanzia e una giovinezza trascorsa da tempo ma mai dimenticate.
Il titolo della raccolta, di carattere antifrastico, chiarifica che, per l'autrice, le piccole virt霉, che consistono soprattutto in un'ostentato perbenismo e in una bonomia di maniera, sconsiderata e semplicistica, sono le principali cause di incomprensione, semplicioneria, stupidit脿, dolori e sofferenze. Il tutto ci viene presentato nel consueto stile diretto, immediato ma sapientemente evocativo, con cui la Ginzburg manifestava una dote di ingenuit脿 che riesce ad arrivare al nocciolo delle vicende e dei problemi. Questo stile 猫 capace, con pochi tratteggi, di rievocare atmosfere e ambienti, non solo fisici, ma soprattutto mentali, e questa ingenuo candore misto a acuta ponderatezza riescono a dare a quest'opera il tocco di maestria che tramuta una raccolta di saggi in un grande lavoro artistico.
120 pages
First published January 1, 1962
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Natalia Ginzburg
123听books1,448听followersNatalia Ginzburg (n茅e Levi) 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 United States. An activist, for a time in the 1930s she belonged to the Italian Communist Party. In 1983 she was elected to Parliament from Rome as an Independent.
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March 8, 2025
"I shall take my children in hand and overcome the temptation to let my life go to pieces. I shall become serious and motherly, as always happens when I am with them."
(from Worn-out shoes)
In the wake of two books of Natalia Ginzburg I have been reading some time ago (a brief biography on Chekhov, and her novel , a family novel on growing up during the Second World War), I came across these lines. Her perceptive and in my opinion wise insight on the need for resilience as a mother hit home. Because Ginzburg鈥檚 sober, luminous and no-nonsense style and particularly her peculiar, somewhat prickly humour had resonated with me previously, I was quite excited to find a copy of this collection on the shelves of the (digital) library.
These eleven essayistic pieces, written at different times and places (between 1944 and 1960, in Turin, Rome and London) mark episodes in Ginzburg鈥檚 life, ranging in tone from elegiac to sharp and bitter, to meditative and mildly nostalgic. She thematises friendship, poverty, compassion, war experiences, happiness, morality, the vocation of writing, parenthood, intimate and family relationships often by relating these grand themes dexterously and with a light, almost sleight of hand touch, to her own life, without rendering her discourse so overwhelmingly personal it might turn mawkish or for the reader uninterestingly egotistical.
The fragment on motherly duties echoed the thoughts of the (insupportable) Momina in Cesare Pavese鈥檚 novel Tra donne sole (), where Momina puts sharply that the decision of having children is ineludibly a committal one and so she will not: When you have children, you accept life. So don鈥檛 have children, if you cannot accept living yourself. Regardless of what fate has in store for you, remember that having children implies you cannot decide to give up anymore and so you will lose your ultimate freedom of self-determination (One year after that penultimate novel, Pavese ended his own life, like one of the characters in his novel, in a Turin hotel room by a barbiturate overdose, following his own bitter logic to the very end. Pavese was a friend of Leone and Natalia Ginzburg; he is the nameless friend she commemorates tenderly and poetically in Portrait of a Friend, without mentioning his name once).
"There is a kind of uniform monotony in the fate of man. Our lives unfold according to ancient, unchangeable laws, according to an invariable and ancient rhythm. Our dreams are never realised and as soon as we see them betrayed we realise that the intensest joys of our life have nothing to do with reality. No sooner do we see them betrayed than we are consumed with regret for the time when they glowed within us. And in this succession of hopes and regrets our life slips by."
There is a fresh feel to these essays, the tone at once radiant and detached (for instance when matter-of-factly mentioning the brutal death in prison of her spouse Leone, murdered and tortured by the fascist police), often having a bittersweet aftertaste. I wasn鈥檛 so gripped by England: Eulogy and Lament which is pervaded with a bitter homesickness, which seemed to make Ginzburg unforgiving in her observations with regard to what she perceives as typical English in both the landscape and the people, to what she perceives as the English way of living which looks very pale and depressing in comparison to the Italian one.
"Human relationships have to be rediscovered and reinvented every day. We have to remember constantly that every kind of meeting with our neighbour is a human action and so it is always evil or good, true or deceitful, a kindness or a sin."
My favourite pieces were Winter in the Abruzzi (1944), Worn-out shoes (1945) and particularly the titular essay The Little Virtues (1960), which, as an anti-bourgeois valediction to the petty values that sometimes tend to encumber the upbringing of a child into responsible adulthood, I would recommend to every parent.
"As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; not shrewdness but frankness and a love of truth; not tact but love for one鈥檚 neighbour and self-denial; not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know."
"In general I think we should be very cautious about promising and providing rewards and punishments. Because life rarely has its rewards and punishments; usually sacrifices have no reward, and often evil deeds go unpunished, at time they are even richly rewarded with success and money. Therefore it is best that our children should know from infancy that good is not rewarded and that evil goes unpunished; yet they must love good and hate evil, and it is not possible to give any logical explanation for this."
For me this is Ginzburg at her best: it are such insights, almost casually phrased moral observations, which make this collection feel relevant and powerful.
Nevertheless, something held me back from embracing these pieces fully, a similar sense of slight disappointment that grated me when I was reading Rachel Cusk鈥檚 (Cusk wrote an introduction to The Little Virtues which also features in that Coventry collection). I am aware however this feeling that something is missing is not at all connected to the essays as they are; it reflects my own indisposition to accept them for what they are 鈥� another illustration how my own expectations on what an essay 鈥榮hould鈥� essentially be keeping me from fully grasping and enjoying what I was reading. I like to read essays which are lucid, to the point, erudite and thought-provoking and which inspire me to look at things in a different way, or which bring forth the excitement of being struck by a turn of phrase capturing some nebulous thought or feeling of mine enticing a big yes, yes, brilliant! as if I were one of the prisoners let out of the cave enabled to see things in the light of truth for a moment. Some of the essays offered such flashes of gemlike observations, others more came across as vignettes about Ginzburg鈥檚 life 鈥� not as essays.
Familiar only with the scent but not (yet?) with the taste of the beverage, Natalia Ginzburg鈥檚 The Little Virtues is how I imagine a fine, smooth cognac: earthly-coloured, rich in flavour and best to savour by small sips.
(***1/2)
鈥�
(from Worn-out shoes)
In the wake of two books of Natalia Ginzburg I have been reading some time ago (a brief biography on Chekhov, and her novel , a family novel on growing up during the Second World War), I came across these lines. Her perceptive and in my opinion wise insight on the need for resilience as a mother hit home. Because Ginzburg鈥檚 sober, luminous and no-nonsense style and particularly her peculiar, somewhat prickly humour had resonated with me previously, I was quite excited to find a copy of this collection on the shelves of the (digital) library.
These eleven essayistic pieces, written at different times and places (between 1944 and 1960, in Turin, Rome and London) mark episodes in Ginzburg鈥檚 life, ranging in tone from elegiac to sharp and bitter, to meditative and mildly nostalgic. She thematises friendship, poverty, compassion, war experiences, happiness, morality, the vocation of writing, parenthood, intimate and family relationships often by relating these grand themes dexterously and with a light, almost sleight of hand touch, to her own life, without rendering her discourse so overwhelmingly personal it might turn mawkish or for the reader uninterestingly egotistical.
The fragment on motherly duties echoed the thoughts of the (insupportable) Momina in Cesare Pavese鈥檚 novel Tra donne sole (), where Momina puts sharply that the decision of having children is ineludibly a committal one and so she will not: When you have children, you accept life. So don鈥檛 have children, if you cannot accept living yourself. Regardless of what fate has in store for you, remember that having children implies you cannot decide to give up anymore and so you will lose your ultimate freedom of self-determination (One year after that penultimate novel, Pavese ended his own life, like one of the characters in his novel, in a Turin hotel room by a barbiturate overdose, following his own bitter logic to the very end. Pavese was a friend of Leone and Natalia Ginzburg; he is the nameless friend she commemorates tenderly and poetically in Portrait of a Friend, without mentioning his name once).
"There is a kind of uniform monotony in the fate of man. Our lives unfold according to ancient, unchangeable laws, according to an invariable and ancient rhythm. Our dreams are never realised and as soon as we see them betrayed we realise that the intensest joys of our life have nothing to do with reality. No sooner do we see them betrayed than we are consumed with regret for the time when they glowed within us. And in this succession of hopes and regrets our life slips by."
There is a fresh feel to these essays, the tone at once radiant and detached (for instance when matter-of-factly mentioning the brutal death in prison of her spouse Leone, murdered and tortured by the fascist police), often having a bittersweet aftertaste. I wasn鈥檛 so gripped by England: Eulogy and Lament which is pervaded with a bitter homesickness, which seemed to make Ginzburg unforgiving in her observations with regard to what she perceives as typical English in both the landscape and the people, to what she perceives as the English way of living which looks very pale and depressing in comparison to the Italian one.
"Human relationships have to be rediscovered and reinvented every day. We have to remember constantly that every kind of meeting with our neighbour is a human action and so it is always evil or good, true or deceitful, a kindness or a sin."
My favourite pieces were Winter in the Abruzzi (1944), Worn-out shoes (1945) and particularly the titular essay The Little Virtues (1960), which, as an anti-bourgeois valediction to the petty values that sometimes tend to encumber the upbringing of a child into responsible adulthood, I would recommend to every parent.
"As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; not shrewdness but frankness and a love of truth; not tact but love for one鈥檚 neighbour and self-denial; not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know."
"In general I think we should be very cautious about promising and providing rewards and punishments. Because life rarely has its rewards and punishments; usually sacrifices have no reward, and often evil deeds go unpunished, at time they are even richly rewarded with success and money. Therefore it is best that our children should know from infancy that good is not rewarded and that evil goes unpunished; yet they must love good and hate evil, and it is not possible to give any logical explanation for this."
For me this is Ginzburg at her best: it are such insights, almost casually phrased moral observations, which make this collection feel relevant and powerful.
Nevertheless, something held me back from embracing these pieces fully, a similar sense of slight disappointment that grated me when I was reading Rachel Cusk鈥檚 (Cusk wrote an introduction to The Little Virtues which also features in that Coventry collection). I am aware however this feeling that something is missing is not at all connected to the essays as they are; it reflects my own indisposition to accept them for what they are 鈥� another illustration how my own expectations on what an essay 鈥榮hould鈥� essentially be keeping me from fully grasping and enjoying what I was reading. I like to read essays which are lucid, to the point, erudite and thought-provoking and which inspire me to look at things in a different way, or which bring forth the excitement of being struck by a turn of phrase capturing some nebulous thought or feeling of mine enticing a big yes, yes, brilliant! as if I were one of the prisoners let out of the cave enabled to see things in the light of truth for a moment. Some of the essays offered such flashes of gemlike observations, others more came across as vignettes about Ginzburg鈥檚 life 鈥� not as essays.
Familiar only with the scent but not (yet?) with the taste of the beverage, Natalia Ginzburg鈥檚 The Little Virtues is how I imagine a fine, smooth cognac: earthly-coloured, rich in flavour and best to savour by small sips.
(***1/2)
鈥�
April 5, 2023
En la primera parte de este libro, me iba dejando llevar, para leer un poco m谩s de Ginzburg, y ver lo que vendr铆a. Est谩 lindo, bien escrito, pero nada que me pareciera sobresalir, solo Elogio y Lamento de Inglaterra, muy simp谩tico en ver el contraste de un temperamento latino frente a el medio ingl茅s.
Pero empez贸 la segunda parte y me movi贸 el piso. Es una belleza, esa belleza profunda que solo puede dar el haber vivido, y en grandes cantidades. Bell铆simo.
Hab铆a le铆do un libro de Ginzburg, con algo de inter茅s, aunque es en este libro en donde me conquist贸.
En El Hijo del hombre, habla de c贸mo se siente todo despu茅s de una guerra, despu茅s del miedo, de el saber que todo puede cambiar en un instante.
En Mi oficio, mi favorito, habla sobre precisamente eso, su vocaci贸n, el escribir.
Silencio es precioso y triste, la voz de un coraz贸n roto.
Las relaciones humanas, es un poco describir los cambios que vamos viendo en nosotros, a trav茅s de la vida.
En Las peque帽as virtudes, da algunos consejos sobre crianza, como para que no les demos esas peque帽as virtudes a nuestros hijos, sino algo mucho m谩s grande.
As铆 que, aunque hab铆a le铆do una novela suya, puedo decir que con este libro la descubr铆 realmente, su relaci贸n con las palabras, su manera de ver la vida, si visi贸n, sus vivencias, ahora s铆 puedo decir que las veo, y seguir茅 ley茅ndola, con mucha curiosidad y alegr铆a.
Pero empez贸 la segunda parte y me movi贸 el piso. Es una belleza, esa belleza profunda que solo puede dar el haber vivido, y en grandes cantidades. Bell铆simo.
Hab铆a le铆do un libro de Ginzburg, con algo de inter茅s, aunque es en este libro en donde me conquist贸.
En El Hijo del hombre, habla de c贸mo se siente todo despu茅s de una guerra, despu茅s del miedo, de el saber que todo puede cambiar en un instante.
En Mi oficio, mi favorito, habla sobre precisamente eso, su vocaci贸n, el escribir.
Silencio es precioso y triste, la voz de un coraz贸n roto.
Las relaciones humanas, es un poco describir los cambios que vamos viendo en nosotros, a trav茅s de la vida.
En Las peque帽as virtudes, da algunos consejos sobre crianza, como para que no les demos esas peque帽as virtudes a nuestros hijos, sino algo mucho m谩s grande.
As铆 que, aunque hab铆a le铆do una novela suya, puedo decir que con este libro la descubr铆 realmente, su relaci贸n con las palabras, su manera de ver la vida, si visi贸n, sus vivencias, ahora s铆 puedo decir que las veo, y seguir茅 ley茅ndola, con mucha curiosidad y alegr铆a.
December 23, 2023
The author is the type of person I actively avoid
The Little Virtues is a collection of essays originally published in 1962.
The author seems to be buried under a mountain of complaints while missing the miracles swirling around her. Ginzburg bashes England and Italy. One of her aims is English food. The best red velvet cake I ever had was in London, and oh鈥�..the gelato! There is magic and wonder in the streets and shops. Oh to walk upon the same pathways as Charles Dickens and JM Barrie!
All aboard the complaint train! Chugging right along鈥�..
Ginzburg also complains about everyone wearing black and criticizes this as unoriginal. In my opinion, this is a narrow-minded view鈥攖here is more than one way to stand out in a sea of black than wearing an obnoxious outfit. For example, people can subtly differentiate themselves with a pop of color from a scarf.
But more importantly鈥︹€�.
Who allows themselves to be defined by their clothes? I would rather be defined by the books I am carrying.
In the essay, He and I, Ginzburg essentially asserts that her husband is perfect, and she is hopeless aka more complaints about her lot in life.
鈥淚 can be very annoying at time.鈥� You don鈥檛 say?
鈥淗e buys enormous quantities of bicarbonate of soda and aspirins.鈥� He probably has a headache from all of the complaints.
Ironically, Ginzburg has a messy essay about how she was destined to be a writer. At the same time, her essay is boring, has no dialogue, and has three-page paragraphs.
Some of the essays also haven鈥檛 aged well.
鈥淎nd perhaps this is the one good thing that has come out of the war. Not to lie, and not to allow others to lie to us.鈥�
Hate to break it to you, but liars still exist.
In the last essay, Ginzburg asserts that people should not be taught to save money but to spend indifferently. However, at the time of this book, people didn鈥檛 have credit cards, student loans, mortgages (the author lived in Europe where staying in the family home was the norm), and health insurance. Life expectancy was lower, so people didn鈥檛 have to worry about living to 100 and outliving their assets.
If this book is about virtue, it certainly isn鈥檛 about the virtue of tolerance. If I had the privilege of sitting next to this author, I would wear earplugs.
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The Little Virtues is a collection of essays originally published in 1962.
The author seems to be buried under a mountain of complaints while missing the miracles swirling around her. Ginzburg bashes England and Italy. One of her aims is English food. The best red velvet cake I ever had was in London, and oh鈥�..the gelato! There is magic and wonder in the streets and shops. Oh to walk upon the same pathways as Charles Dickens and JM Barrie!
All aboard the complaint train! Chugging right along鈥�..
Ginzburg also complains about everyone wearing black and criticizes this as unoriginal. In my opinion, this is a narrow-minded view鈥攖here is more than one way to stand out in a sea of black than wearing an obnoxious outfit. For example, people can subtly differentiate themselves with a pop of color from a scarf.
But more importantly鈥︹€�.
Who allows themselves to be defined by their clothes? I would rather be defined by the books I am carrying.
In the essay, He and I, Ginzburg essentially asserts that her husband is perfect, and she is hopeless aka more complaints about her lot in life.
鈥淚 can be very annoying at time.鈥� You don鈥檛 say?
鈥淗e buys enormous quantities of bicarbonate of soda and aspirins.鈥� He probably has a headache from all of the complaints.
Ironically, Ginzburg has a messy essay about how she was destined to be a writer. At the same time, her essay is boring, has no dialogue, and has three-page paragraphs.
Some of the essays also haven鈥檛 aged well.
鈥淎nd perhaps this is the one good thing that has come out of the war. Not to lie, and not to allow others to lie to us.鈥�
Hate to break it to you, but liars still exist.
In the last essay, Ginzburg asserts that people should not be taught to save money but to spend indifferently. However, at the time of this book, people didn鈥檛 have credit cards, student loans, mortgages (the author lived in Europe where staying in the family home was the norm), and health insurance. Life expectancy was lower, so people didn鈥檛 have to worry about living to 100 and outliving their assets.
If this book is about virtue, it certainly isn鈥檛 about the virtue of tolerance. If I had the privilege of sitting next to this author, I would wear earplugs.
How much I spent:
Hardcover text 鈥� Free through Mel-Cat (Michigan Library System)
Connect With Me!
May 3, 2021
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亘乇賵鬲夭賵 鬲亘毓蹖丿 卮丿. 丕賵 丿乇 郾酃酃郾 丿乇诏匕卮鬲. 賳丕鬲丕賱蹖丕 賳賵蹖爻賳丿赖鈥屫й� 賵賯丕蹖毓鈥屬嗂ж必� 賲賵卮讴丕賮 賵 丿丕乇丕蹖 賳孬乇蹖 倬乇 丕夭 氐賵鬲 賵 丨乇讴鬲 賵 乇蹖夭 賵 亘賲 丕爻鬲 讴賴 丨鬲蹖 亘丕 丕爻鬲賮丕丿賴 丕夭 讴賱賲丕鬲 倬蹖卮鈥屬矩жз佖ж� 賲蹖鈥屫堌з嗀� 丨賯蹖賯鬲丕 丕孬乇蹖 卮丕毓乇丕賳賴 亘乇 禺賵丕賳賳丿賴 亘诏匕丕乇丿. 丕夭 讴賵丿讴蹖 卮毓乇 賲蹖鈥屫池辟堌� 賵 亘毓丿 亘賴 丿丕爻鬲丕賳鈥屫池必й屰� 乇賵蹖 丌賵乇丿賴. 讴鬲丕亘 丿蹖诏賴鈥屫й� 讴賴 丕夭卮 禺賵賳丿賲 讴鬲丕亘 丕賱賮亘丕蹖 夭賳丿诏蹖 丕爻鬲 讴賴 亘毓丿 丕夭 禺賵賳丿賳 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 賲胤丕賱毓賴鈥屫� 讴乇丿賲貙 丿乇 丌賳 讴鬲丕亘 卮乇丨 夭賳丿诏蹖鈥屫ж� 丕夭 亘丿賵 鬲賵賱丿 鬲丕 馗賴賵乇 賵 爻賯賵胤 賮丕卮蹖爻賲 乇丕 亘蹖丕賳 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗀�.
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丕蹖賳 丕賵賱蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘蹖賴 讴賴 丕夭 丕蹖賳 賳賵蹖爻賳丿赖 禺賵賳丿賲 賵 禺蹖賱蹖 亘丕 賯賱賲卮 丨爻 賳夭丿蹖讴蹖 賵 氐賲蹖賲蹖鬲 丿丕卮鬲賲. 賳賵蹖爻賳丿赖 亘丕 賯賱賲蹖 亘蹖鈥屫┵勝� 賵 賳诏丕賴蹖 爻丕丿賴 丿乇賲賵乇丿 趩蹖夭賴丕蹖蹖 賲蹖鈥屬嗁堐屫池� 讴賴 丿乇 夭賳丿诏蹖 賲丕 毓丕丿蹖 卮丿賴 賵 亘賴 丌賳鈥屬囏� 丕賴賲蹖鬲蹖 賳賲蹖鈥屫囒屬�. 丕賵 丿乇 郾郾 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丕蹖賳 賮囟蹖賱鬲鈥屬囏� 乇丕 賲胤乇丨 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗀�. 鬲噩乇亘賴鈥屫ж� 丕夭 讴丕乇 賵 丨乇賮賴鈥屫ж簇� 丕乇鬲亘丕胤 亘丕 丿賵爻鬲丕賳卮 賵 賮乇夭賳丿丕賳卮貙 賳賵蹖爻賳丿赖 讴鬲丕亘 乇丕 丕夭 丿蹖丿 蹖讴 賲毓賱賲 賳賵卮鬲賴 賵 亘賴 賳馗乇賲 亘乇丕蹖 賴乇 賲丕丿乇 蹖丕 賴乇讴爻蹖 讴賴 亘丕 讴賵丿讴丕賳 爻乇賵讴丕乇 丿丕乇賴 賲蹖鬲賵賳賴 賲賮蹖丿 亘丕卮賴.
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賳丕鬲丕賱蹖丕 诏蹖賳夭亘賵乇诏 丿乇 禺丕賳賵丕丿賴鈥屫й� 蹖賴賵丿蹖 丿乇 爻丕賱 郾酃郾鄱 亘賴 丿賳蹖丕 丌賲丿. 丕賵 賴賲爻乇 乇賵夭賳丕賲賴鈥屬嗂ж臂� 爻蹖丕爻蹖 卮丿 讴賴 亘丕 卮乇賵毓 噩賳诏 噩賴丕賳蹖 丿賵賲 賴賲乇丕賴 亘丕 卮賵賴乇卮 賵 丿賵 賮乇夭賳丿卮 亘賴 卮賴乇 丌
亘乇賵鬲夭賵 鬲亘毓蹖丿 卮丿. 丕賵 丿乇 郾酃酃郾 丿乇诏匕卮鬲. 賳丕鬲丕賱蹖丕 賳賵蹖爻賳丿赖鈥屫й� 賵賯丕蹖毓鈥屬嗂ж必� 賲賵卮讴丕賮 賵 丿丕乇丕蹖 賳孬乇蹖 倬乇 丕夭 氐賵鬲 賵 丨乇讴鬲 賵 乇蹖夭 賵 亘賲 丕爻鬲 讴賴 丨鬲蹖 亘丕 丕爻鬲賮丕丿賴 丕夭 讴賱賲丕鬲 倬蹖卮鈥屬矩жз佖ж� 賲蹖鈥屫堌з嗀� 丨賯蹖賯鬲丕 丕孬乇蹖 卮丕毓乇丕賳賴 亘乇 禺賵丕賳賳丿賴 亘诏匕丕乇丿. 丕夭 讴賵丿讴蹖 卮毓乇 賲蹖鈥屫池辟堌� 賵 亘毓丿 亘賴 丿丕爻鬲丕賳鈥屫池必й屰� 乇賵蹖 丌賵乇丿賴. 讴鬲丕亘 丿蹖诏賴鈥屫й� 讴賴 丕夭卮 禺賵賳丿賲 讴鬲丕亘 丕賱賮亘丕蹖 夭賳丿诏蹖 丕爻鬲 讴賴 亘毓丿 丕夭 禺賵賳丿賳 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 賲胤丕賱毓賴鈥屫� 讴乇丿賲貙 丿乇 丌賳 讴鬲丕亘 卮乇丨 夭賳丿诏蹖鈥屫ж� 丕夭 亘丿賵 鬲賵賱丿 鬲丕 馗賴賵乇 賵 爻賯賵胤 賮丕卮蹖爻賲 乇丕 亘蹖丕賳 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗀�.
September 4, 2015
"We have seen reality's darkest face, and it no longer horrifies us. And there are still those who complain that writers use bitter, violent language, that they write about cruel, distressing things, that they present reality in the worst possible light."- Natalia Ginzburg, The Son of God
I picked this one up and started reading because it was in the Italian lit section at the library and I'm trying to read more women writers. It took me a while to realize that these were short essays and not short stories like I'd initially supposed. Maybe it has something to do with her writing style? I found it very accessible. I liked her essays a lot. She writes about her struggles as a mother and a writer, her time in exile, her travels, and personal challenges.
She also wrote a very biting piece on England, which I think most English people will take umbrage at but was quite interesting to me regardless:
Eulogy and Lament: We are quickly infected by the English melancholy. It is a sheepish, stunned melancholy, a sort of empty bewilderment, and on its surface the conversations about the weather, the seasons-- about all those things one discusses without going too deeply into anything, without giving offense or being offended-- linger like the constant buzzing of mosquitoes...
There were also essays about raising kids during the war, what changes regarding parenting because of war and hardships. In a way it reminded me of Zweig's reminiscences of Europe after the war:
"We cannot do this to children who have seen terror and horror in our faces...There is an unabridgeable abyss between us and the previous generation. The dangers they lived through were trivial and their houses were rarely reduced to rubble."
A couple of passages I liked:
"My vocation is to write stories-- invented things or things which I can remember from my own life, but in any case stories, things that are connected only with memory and imagination and have nothing to do with erudition. This is my vocation and I shall work at it till I die."
"As far as the things we write are concerned there is a danger in grief just as there is a danger in happiness. Because poetic beauty is a mixture of ruthlessness, pride, irony, physical tenderness, of imagination and memory, of clarity and obscurity-- and if we cannot gather all these things together we are left with something meagre, unreliable and hardly alive."
I picked this one up and started reading because it was in the Italian lit section at the library and I'm trying to read more women writers. It took me a while to realize that these were short essays and not short stories like I'd initially supposed. Maybe it has something to do with her writing style? I found it very accessible. I liked her essays a lot. She writes about her struggles as a mother and a writer, her time in exile, her travels, and personal challenges.
She also wrote a very biting piece on England, which I think most English people will take umbrage at but was quite interesting to me regardless:
Eulogy and Lament: We are quickly infected by the English melancholy. It is a sheepish, stunned melancholy, a sort of empty bewilderment, and on its surface the conversations about the weather, the seasons-- about all those things one discusses without going too deeply into anything, without giving offense or being offended-- linger like the constant buzzing of mosquitoes...
There were also essays about raising kids during the war, what changes regarding parenting because of war and hardships. In a way it reminded me of Zweig's reminiscences of Europe after the war:
"We cannot do this to children who have seen terror and horror in our faces...There is an unabridgeable abyss between us and the previous generation. The dangers they lived through were trivial and their houses were rarely reduced to rubble."
A couple of passages I liked:
"My vocation is to write stories-- invented things or things which I can remember from my own life, but in any case stories, things that are connected only with memory and imagination and have nothing to do with erudition. This is my vocation and I shall work at it till I die."
"As far as the things we write are concerned there is a danger in grief just as there is a danger in happiness. Because poetic beauty is a mixture of ruthlessness, pride, irony, physical tenderness, of imagination and memory, of clarity and obscurity-- and if we cannot gather all these things together we are left with something meagre, unreliable and hardly alive."
September 14, 2024
Some books enter your life like a breath of fresh air
Blowing open the windows of a mind
Grown so stuffy it smells like a beast slept in there
鈥擳hey let in light where you thought you were blind
Some books teach you to read or to think or to love
Or simply to admire their pages
The one in your hand teaches all of the above
Without ever turning you into sages
There is something this book will remind you to do
Which you must do before you are dead
And if you have it in mind to ask me to tell you
What it is鈥擨'll just keep quiet instead
December 28, 2021
3,5*
"As Pequenas Virtudes鈥� abre com um pr贸logo de Rachel Cusk, t茫o ins铆pido e frio como tudo o que ela escreve e que dever谩, como todas as introdu莽玫es que comentam demasiado, ser lido no fim.
Nesta compila莽茫o de Natalia Ginzburg h谩 quatro ensaios de que desgostei realmente. Sob a mesma tem谩tica, temos 鈥淓ngland: Eulogy and Lament鈥� e 鈥淟a Maison Volp茅鈥�, ambos escritos em Inglaterra sobre Inglaterra, no in铆cio dos anos 60. N茫o deixo de os compreender, pois, no fundo, s茫o uma resposta merecida aos escritores ingleses que passaram s茅culos a rebaixar e a insultar os italianos sempre que viajavam pelo seu pa铆s, referindo-se a eles praticamente como uns selvagens, mas parecem-me ambos mesquinhos e revanchistas, sem terem propriamente subst芒ncia.
No campo da intelectualiza莽茫o da trivialidade, temos 鈥淗uman Relationships鈥�, que 茅 bastante elementar: um conjunto de generaliza莽玫es que n茫o acrescentam nada de relevante. A utiliza莽茫o generalista do 鈥渘贸s鈥� neste ensaio torna-se insuport谩vel no seguinte, 鈥淟ittle Virtues鈥�, que 茅 t茫o moralista que mais parece um serm茫o do alto de um arrogante p煤lpito. Dizer aos outros como devem gastar o SEU dinheiro e educar os SEUS filhos s茫o assuntos que me deixam imediatamente eri莽ada.
There is no better way to teach a child this indifference than to give him money to spend when there is money 鈥� because then he will learn to part with it without worrying about it or regretting it.
鈥淗e and I鈥�, 鈥淢y Vocation鈥� e 鈥淪ilence鈥� s茫o interessantes reflex玫es pessoais de Natalia Ginzburg, que nos permitem ficar a conhec锚-la um pouco, mas o ponto alto s茫o os tr锚s primeiros textos e 鈥淭he Son of Man鈥�, que justificam por si s贸 a leitura de 鈥淎s Pequenas Virtudes鈥�.
鈥淲inter in the Abruzzi鈥� descreve com muita gra莽a um per铆odo em que Natalia, os filhos e o marido se exilaram nessa regi茫o, por se oporem ao regime fascista, e onde ela escreveu a sua primeira novela, 鈥淥 Caminho da Cidade鈥�. As descri莽玫es da paisagem e da vida na prov铆ncia s茫o encantadoras, mas o final 茅 de gelar o sangue.
When the first snows began to fall a quiet sadness took hold of us. We were in exile: our city was a long way off, and so were books, friends, the various desultory events of a real existence.
鈥淲orn-out Shoes鈥� 茅 uma hist贸ria singela mas cheia de significado sobre amizade e cumplicidade em torno de um par de sapatos descambados, enquanto 鈥淧ortrait of a Friend鈥� 茅 um retrato t茫o nost谩lgico e pungente como se pode imaginar algo escrito por uma amiga chegada de Cesare Pavese.
And now it occurs to us that our city resembles the friend whom we have lost and who loved it; it is, as he was, industrious, stamped with a frown of stubborn, feverish activity; and it is simultaneously listless and inclined to spend its time idly dreaming.
Escrito no rescaldo da Segunda Guerra, 鈥淭he Son of Man鈥� fala do medo intr铆nseco e da impossibilidade de superar o trauma dos horrores vividos durante essa 茅poca.
We cannot lie in our books and we cannot lie in any of the things we do. And perhaps this is the one good thing that has come out of the war. Not to lie, and not to allow others to lie to us.
Winter in the Abruzzi - 5*
Worn-out shoes - 5*
Portrait of a Friend-5*
England: Eulogy and Lament-2*
"La Maison Volp茅 - 2*
He and I - 3*
The Son of Man-5*
My Vocation-4*
Silence - 3*
Human Relations 鈥� 2*
Little Virtues 鈥� 2*
"As Pequenas Virtudes鈥� abre com um pr贸logo de Rachel Cusk, t茫o ins铆pido e frio como tudo o que ela escreve e que dever谩, como todas as introdu莽玫es que comentam demasiado, ser lido no fim.
Nesta compila莽茫o de Natalia Ginzburg h谩 quatro ensaios de que desgostei realmente. Sob a mesma tem谩tica, temos 鈥淓ngland: Eulogy and Lament鈥� e 鈥淟a Maison Volp茅鈥�, ambos escritos em Inglaterra sobre Inglaterra, no in铆cio dos anos 60. N茫o deixo de os compreender, pois, no fundo, s茫o uma resposta merecida aos escritores ingleses que passaram s茅culos a rebaixar e a insultar os italianos sempre que viajavam pelo seu pa铆s, referindo-se a eles praticamente como uns selvagens, mas parecem-me ambos mesquinhos e revanchistas, sem terem propriamente subst芒ncia.
No campo da intelectualiza莽茫o da trivialidade, temos 鈥淗uman Relationships鈥�, que 茅 bastante elementar: um conjunto de generaliza莽玫es que n茫o acrescentam nada de relevante. A utiliza莽茫o generalista do 鈥渘贸s鈥� neste ensaio torna-se insuport谩vel no seguinte, 鈥淟ittle Virtues鈥�, que 茅 t茫o moralista que mais parece um serm茫o do alto de um arrogante p煤lpito. Dizer aos outros como devem gastar o SEU dinheiro e educar os SEUS filhos s茫o assuntos que me deixam imediatamente eri莽ada.
There is no better way to teach a child this indifference than to give him money to spend when there is money 鈥� because then he will learn to part with it without worrying about it or regretting it.
鈥淗e and I鈥�, 鈥淢y Vocation鈥� e 鈥淪ilence鈥� s茫o interessantes reflex玫es pessoais de Natalia Ginzburg, que nos permitem ficar a conhec锚-la um pouco, mas o ponto alto s茫o os tr锚s primeiros textos e 鈥淭he Son of Man鈥�, que justificam por si s贸 a leitura de 鈥淎s Pequenas Virtudes鈥�.
鈥淲inter in the Abruzzi鈥� descreve com muita gra莽a um per铆odo em que Natalia, os filhos e o marido se exilaram nessa regi茫o, por se oporem ao regime fascista, e onde ela escreveu a sua primeira novela, 鈥淥 Caminho da Cidade鈥�. As descri莽玫es da paisagem e da vida na prov铆ncia s茫o encantadoras, mas o final 茅 de gelar o sangue.
When the first snows began to fall a quiet sadness took hold of us. We were in exile: our city was a long way off, and so were books, friends, the various desultory events of a real existence.
鈥淲orn-out Shoes鈥� 茅 uma hist贸ria singela mas cheia de significado sobre amizade e cumplicidade em torno de um par de sapatos descambados, enquanto 鈥淧ortrait of a Friend鈥� 茅 um retrato t茫o nost谩lgico e pungente como se pode imaginar algo escrito por uma amiga chegada de Cesare Pavese.
And now it occurs to us that our city resembles the friend whom we have lost and who loved it; it is, as he was, industrious, stamped with a frown of stubborn, feverish activity; and it is simultaneously listless and inclined to spend its time idly dreaming.
Escrito no rescaldo da Segunda Guerra, 鈥淭he Son of Man鈥� fala do medo intr铆nseco e da impossibilidade de superar o trauma dos horrores vividos durante essa 茅poca.
We cannot lie in our books and we cannot lie in any of the things we do. And perhaps this is the one good thing that has come out of the war. Not to lie, and not to allow others to lie to us.
Winter in the Abruzzi - 5*
Worn-out shoes - 5*
Portrait of a Friend-5*
England: Eulogy and Lament-2*
"La Maison Volp茅 - 2*
He and I - 3*
The Son of Man-5*
My Vocation-4*
Silence - 3*
Human Relations 鈥� 2*
Little Virtues 鈥� 2*
October 7, 2023
賮賵賯 丕賱毓丕丿賴 亘賵丿 賮氐賱 丌禺乇卮賵 禺蹖賱蹖 丿賵爻鬲 丿丕卮鬲賲.
讴鬲丕亘蹖 讴賴 爻丕賱賴丕爻鬲 鬲賵 賱蹖爻鬲 賲胤丕賱毓賴 丕賲 亘賵丿 亘丕賱丕禺乇賴 禺賵賳丿賲
讴鬲丕亘蹖 讴賴 爻丕賱賴丕爻鬲 鬲賵 賱蹖爻鬲 賲胤丕賱毓賴 丕賲 亘賵丿 亘丕賱丕禺乇賴 禺賵賳丿賲
September 6, 2022
Once the experiece of evil has been endured it is never forgotten. Someone who has seen a house collapse knows only too clearly what frail things little vases of flowers and pictures and white walls are.
I've completely fallen in love with Ginzburg's writing: her prose is so simple and pellucid but that transparency holds depths. My only slight frustration with this book is that I wanted more - much more - I wanted these essays to continue.
This is a brief collection of short pieces, little more than a hundred pages in my edition. Not that the contents are slight: they distil much wisdom and hard-won life experience. Whether Ginzburg is contemplating exile from Mussolini's Rome, friendship, shoes or her vocation as a writer, these pieces have that rare ability to both connect with the reader and to also take on a resonance so much greater than their apparent subject.
Stand out pieces for me are 'The Little Virtues' where Ginzburg's politicised values are shown to shape her concept of life aimed at a younger generation ('the true defence against wealth is not a fear of wealth - of its fragility and of the vicious consequences that it can bring - the true defence against wealth is an indifference to money. There is no better way to teach a child this indifference than to give him [sic] money to spend when there is money - because then he will learn to part with it without worrying about it or regretting it'); and the beautiful melancholy of 'Winter in the Abruzzi', the place to where she, her first husband and children were exiled by the fascist government. Only at the end do we understand how this captures a time, unrecognised in the moment, of happiness.
For all of Ginzburg's tribulations and losses, one of the key emotions that comes through this book is her love of life, something which she, at least partly, attributes to having a vocation or purpose in life.
Wise, thoughtful, beautifully if unobtrusively written, I found this a fine companion to my recent reading of Ginzburg's .
April 16, 2016
讴鬲丕亘 芦賮囟蹖賱鬲鈥屬囏й� 賳丕趩蹖夭禄 乇丕 丕賵賱蹖賳 亘丕乇 賵賯鬲蹖 禺蹖賱蹖 噩賵丕賳 亘賵丿賲貙 丿賵爻鬲蹖 亘賴 賲賳 賯乇囟 丿丕丿. 丌賳 夭賲丕賳 賵亘賱丕诏 賵 賳賵蹖爻賳丿诏蹖 賲賴賲鈥屫臂屬� 賵 賲鬲丿丕賵賱鈥屫臂屬� 丿睾丿睾賴鈥屫з� 亘賵丿 賵 賮讴乇 賲蹖讴乇丿賲 丿賳蹖丕 賴賲蹖賳 丕爻鬲 讴賴 賲賳 賲蹖鈥屬嗁堐屫迟� 賵 賲蹖鈥屫ㄛ屬嗁� 賵 賴乇 趩賴 夭賳丿诏蹖鈥屫池� 丕夭 爻乇 賯賱賲 賲賳 噩丕乇蹖 賲蹖鈥屫促堌� 賵 賲蹖鈥屫堌簇�. 禺賱丕氐賴 賲賳 亘賵丿賲 賵 賳賵讴 丿賲丕睾賲. 丿賵爻鬲賲 賵賱蹖 丕夭 賳馗乇 賲賳 夭蹖丕丿蹖 丕丿蹖亘 亘賵丿 賵 亘趩賴鈥屬呚ㄘ�. 賲賳 賳賴 噩丿蹖 賲蹖鈥屭辟佖呚� 賵 賳賴 丕夭 乇賵蹖 丕丿亘 亘賴 禺賵丿賲 丕噩丕夭賴 賲蹖鈥屫ж� 亘賴 丕賵 讴賴 10爻丕賱蹖 丕夭 賲賳 亘夭乇诏鈥屫� 亘賵丿貙 鬲賳丿蹖 讴賳賲. 讴鬲丕亘 賲丕賳丿 丿爻鬲賲 鬲丕 乇賵夭蹖 讴賴 賲蹖鈥屫з嗀池� 丿蹖诏乇 賳禺賵丕賴賲 丿蹖丿卮 賵 丕賵 乇丕 賲蹖丕賳 乇賵夭賲乇诏蹖鈥屬囏� 诏賲 讴乇丿賲. 丿蹖诏乇 丕夭 丌賳 丕賴賳 賵 鬲賱倬 禺亘乇蹖 賳亘賵丿 賵 讴賲蹖 賲鬲毓丕丿賱 卮丿賴 亘賵丿 賲賯蹖丕爻 亘蹖賳 賲賳 賵 夭賳丿诏蹖. 讴鬲丕亘 乇丕 禺賵丕賳丿賲. 丿賵爻鬲卮 丿丕卮鬲賲貙 趩賵賳 诏蹖賳夭亘賵乇诏 乇丕 丿賵爻鬲 賲蹖鈥屫ж簇�. 趩賵賳 丿蹖丿卮 亘賴 丌賳趩賴 夭賳丿诏蹖 賲蹖鈥屬嗀з呟屬呚簇� 丕诏乇趩賴 蹖讴鬲丕 賳亘賵丿貙 丕賲丕 亘蹖鈥屬嗁囏й屫� 賲賱賲賵爻 亘賵丿 賵 賮賴賲蹖丿賳蹖. 趩賵賳 诏蹖賳夭亘賵乇诏 夭賳 亘賵丿 賵 夭賳 亘賵丿賳 乇丕 亘賴 賵囟賵丨 亘毓丿 丕夭 丕賳讴丕乇 讴乇丿賳鈥屬囏й� 賮乇丕賵丕賳 倬匕蹖乇賮鬲賴 亘賵丿. 丨丕賱丕 亘乇丕蹖 亘丕乇 丿賵賲 倬爻 丕夭 爻丕賱鈥屬囏� 讴鬲丕亘 乇丕 禺賵丕賳丿賲. 賴賳賵夭 賴賲 丿賵爻鬲卮 丿丕卮鬲賲. 丕蹖賳 賲噩賲賵毓賴 蹖丕丿丿丕卮鬲鈥屬囏й� 賳丕亘丿蹖賴蹖 丿乇 亘丕乇賴鈥屰� 亘丿蹖賴蹖丕鬲. 賵 丨丕賱丕 毓賲蹖賯丕 賲蹖賮賴賲賲 丌賳 丿賵爻鬲 夭賱夭賱賴鈥屫促嗀ж迟� 賲賳貙 趩賴 丿蹖丿賴 亘賵丿 丿乇 賲賳 讴賴 鬲卮賵蹖賯賲 讴乇丿 亘賴 禺賵丕賳丿賳 讴鬲丕亘. 趩乇丕 讴賴 讴鬲丕亘 芦賮囟蹖賱鬲鈥屬囏й� 賳丕趩蹖夭禄 賲蹖鈥屫堌з嗀� 卮賲丕 乇丕 丿乇 亘乇丕亘乇 胤睾蹖丕賳 賳丕丕賲蹖丿蹖貙 睾乇賵乇 亘蹖鈥屫堌� 亘蹖鈥屫ж关呚ж� 亘賴 禺賵丿 賵 禺賱丕氐賴貨 夭賳丿诏蹖貙 讴賲蹖 賵 賮賯胤 讴賲蹖 丌乇丕賲鈥屫з� 讴賳丿. 鬲丕 賳賮爻蹖 鬲丕夭賴 讴賳蹖丿 賵 丿賵亘丕乇賴 爻倬乇 亘乇丿丕乇蹖丿.
December 25, 2017
Le so TUTTE!
Non nego di essere abbastanza stupito dalle tante recensioni positive su questa raccolta di racconti e articoli di Natalia Ginzburg.
Avevo avuto la sensazione di un certo snobismo della scrittrice leggendo il Lessico, sensazione che qui 猫 per me confermata.
La Ginzburg mi 猫 sembrata saccente, snob, irritante; spara sentenze come un Kalashnikov in una furiosa battaglia (il capitolo su inglesi e Inghilterra 猫 ai limiti della sopportazione). Non ha il minimo dubbio, mai, in quanto sembra l鈥檜nica tenutaria del Vero. Riesce perfino a spiegarci come evitare di fare errori che ahim猫 contraddistinguono prevalentemente lei.
Essendo, come negarlo, una grande scrittrice, riesce a concederci fortunatamente anche qualche perla.
"Per quanto riguarda l'educazione dei figli, penso che si debbano insegnar loro non le piccole virt霉, ma le grandi. Non il risparmio, ma la generosit脿 e l'indifferenza al denaro; non la prudenza, ma il coraggio e lo sprezzo del pericolo; non l'astuzia, ma la schiettezza e l'amore alla verit脿; non la diplomazia, ma l'amore al prossimo e l'abnegazione; non il desiderio del successo, ma il desiderio di essere e di sapere. Di solito invece facciamo il contrario: ci affrettiamo a insegnare il rispetto per le piccole virt霉, fondando su di esse tutto il nostro sistema educativo."
L鈥檌mpressione generale per貌 猫 di tristezza, di angoscia, di autocompiacimento, di circolarit脿, di totale assenza di gioia; lo sguardo 猫 sempre rivolto solo al passato. Mi verrebbe da dire un libro invecchiato; e male.
Se non fosse stato per i racconti 鈥�Le piccole virt霉鈥� e 鈥�Ritratto di un amico鈥� avrei messo una stella. Ma 猫 la Ginzburg, arrivo (con fatica e, pusillanime, per evitare il linciaggio) a tre.
September 13, 2016
鬲賵氐蹖賮 亘爻蹖丕乇 丿賯蹖賯 賵 噩匕丕亘蹖 丿丕乇丿 诏丕賴丕 ! 噩賵乇蹖 讴賴 丕丨爻丕爻 賲蹖讴賳蹖 丿丕乇丿 丨乇賮 賴丕蹖 鬲賴 賳卮蹖賳 卮丿賴 丿賱鬲 乇丕 丕夭 倬爻 爻丕賱賴丕 亘賴 爻胤丨 夭亘丕賳鬲 丌賵乇丿賴 賵 氐賵乇鬲 亘賳丿蹖 賲蹖讴賳丿 ...賲孬賱丕 鬲讴賴 蹖 夭蹖乇 蹖讴蹖 丕夭 亘禺卮 賴丕蹖蹖 爻鬲 讴賴 賴賲蹖卮賴 賳诏丕賴 賲賳 亘賴 丕蹖賳 噩賴丕賳 賵 丌丿賲 賴丕 賵 丕卮蹖丕亍 丿乇賵賳卮 亘賵丿賴 賵 诏蹖賳夭亘賵乇诏 丕賵賳 乇賵 禺蹖賱蹖 禺賵亘 亘蹖丕賳 讴乇丿賴:
趩賴 讴爻丕賳蹖 丕賳丿 丿蹖诏乇丕賳 賵 趩賴 讴爻丕賳蹖 賴爻鬲蹖賲 賲丕責 丕夭 禺賵丿 賲蹖 倬乇爻蹖賲 .诏丕賴蹖 鬲賲丕賲 亘毓丿 丕夭 馗賴乇 乇丕 丿乇 丕鬲丕賯 賲丕賳 賲蹖 賲丕賳蹖賲貙 亘丕 丕賳丿蹖卮蹖丿賳 亘丕 丕丨爻丕爻 诏賳诏蹖 丕夭 爻乇诏蹖噩賴貙 丕夭 禺賵丿 賲蹖 倬乇爻蹖賲 丌蹖丕 丿蹖诏乇丕賳 賵丕賯毓丕 賵噩賵丿 丿丕乇賳丿 蹖丕 賲丕 丌賳丕賳 乇丕 禺賱賯 讴乇丿賴 丕蹖賲責 亘賴 禺賵丿 賲蹖诏賵蹖蹖賲 卮丕蹖丿 丿乇 睾蹖亘鬲 賲丕賳 丿蹖诏乇丕賳蹖 賵噩賵丿 賳丿丕卮鬲賴 亘丕卮賳丿 賵 亘丕 賵夭卮 亘丕丿蹖 賳丕倬丿蹖丿 卮賵賳丿 賵 亘賴 胤賵乇 賲毓噩夭賴 丌爻丕蹖蹖 亘賴 賲丨囟 丌賳讴賴 賳诏丕賴 卮丕賳 賲蹖讴賳蹖賲 蹖讴亘丕乇賴 爻乇 丕夭 禺丕讴 亘乇丌賵乇賳丿. 丕诏乇 蹖讴 乇賵夭 亘乇丕賲丕賳 丕鬲賮丕賯 亘蹖賮鬲丿 讴賴 賳丕诏賴丕賳 爻乇亘乇诏乇丿丕賳蹖賲 賵 賴蹖趩 趩蹖夭 賵 賴蹖趩 讴爻 乇丕 賳亘蹖賳蹖賲 貙 丨蹖乇鬲 夭丿賴 賳禺賵丕賴蹖賲 卮丿責 亘賳丕亘乇丕蹖賳 亘賴 禺賵丿 賲蹖 诏賵蹖蹖賲 丿賱蹖賱蹖 賳丿丕乇丿 讴賴 丕夭 亘蹖 丕毓鬲賳丕蹖蹖 丿蹖诏乇丕賳貙 丿蹖诏乇丕賳蹖 讴賴 卮丕蹖丿 賵噩賵丿 賳丿丕乇賳丿 丕蹖賳 賴賲賴 睾賲诏蹖賳 卮賵蹖賲.
August 19, 2022
I was frustrated very often while reading this book: I had borrowed it from a friend who likes to keep her copies pristine, and as someone quite the opposite I knew I was in for a rough time. What I did not know was that I was to battle not just a few resonant words, but over 170 pages of radiant prose where nearly all the sentences begged to be underlined. Even the friend seems to have felt similarly, for every now and then I found my struggle mirrored in her neatly pencilled lines of surrender.
Written variously between 1944 and 1960, the eleven essays in The Little Virtues explore themes such as war, melancholy, friendship, and love in its many forms with an almost transcendent sense of wisdom and dexterity. Ginzburg's style here as elsewhere is disarmingly, almost memoiristically intimate at the same time as it is direct and unsentimental, all to the effect of drawing readers into reflecting on our values and experiences alongside her own. Despite my separation from the author in time and place, I felt as if her words spoke to me at eye level.
Though the arrangement is not chronological, the essays are divided into two sections. Part I is more focused on memories and experiences from wartime: "Winter in the Abruzzi" looks back on the author's memories of exile in a small town turned fond in hindsight; "Worn-out Shoes" traces her journey with two friends, a woman and a pair of shoes; and "Portrait of a Friend" traces the relationship between cities and loneliness while paying beautiful homage to the poet Cesare Pavese. In "England: Eulogy and Lament" and "La Maison Volpe," the author writes with characteristic humour and a hint of bitterness of her observations of an alien country, and in "He and I," she traces her loving鈥攖hough also exasperating鈥攔elationship with her second husband by enumerating all their differences.
Part II, marked by the essay "Son of a Man," is informed by post-war sensibilities and comprises longer, more meditative pieces aimed at the generative, creative, and even reparative work of childcare and writing. In "Human Relationships," the author creates a unique bond with the reader over the span of her own lifetime; "Silence" acts almost as a companion piece and adds dimensions to its observations on compassion. "My Vocation"鈥攐ne of Ginzburg's most cited works and my personal favourite鈥攅xpounds on her relationship with writing through its crests and troughs, demonstrating too the ways in which she, as Rachel Cusk says in her introduction, gives a new template for the female voice and what it might sound like. The volume closes with the moral crescendo of the groundbreaking title essay, which urges readers to look beyond convention and at a more honest and harmonious way of parenting our children and, in my interpretation, our own selves.
Though I rarely enjoy essay collections from start to finish, I relished this one throughout. On the occasions I disagreed with what the author was saying, I was still in awe of the art with which she said it. The Little Virtues felt to me a warm, glowing thing that I would like to keep and seek out for equal measures of comfort and instruction (much like what I believe Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet may be to some people). I would like to get myself a copy of my own and underline away鈥擨 would suggest you do, too.
Written variously between 1944 and 1960, the eleven essays in The Little Virtues explore themes such as war, melancholy, friendship, and love in its many forms with an almost transcendent sense of wisdom and dexterity. Ginzburg's style here as elsewhere is disarmingly, almost memoiristically intimate at the same time as it is direct and unsentimental, all to the effect of drawing readers into reflecting on our values and experiences alongside her own. Despite my separation from the author in time and place, I felt as if her words spoke to me at eye level.
Though the arrangement is not chronological, the essays are divided into two sections. Part I is more focused on memories and experiences from wartime: "Winter in the Abruzzi" looks back on the author's memories of exile in a small town turned fond in hindsight; "Worn-out Shoes" traces her journey with two friends, a woman and a pair of shoes; and "Portrait of a Friend" traces the relationship between cities and loneliness while paying beautiful homage to the poet Cesare Pavese. In "England: Eulogy and Lament" and "La Maison Volpe," the author writes with characteristic humour and a hint of bitterness of her observations of an alien country, and in "He and I," she traces her loving鈥攖hough also exasperating鈥攔elationship with her second husband by enumerating all their differences.
Part II, marked by the essay "Son of a Man," is informed by post-war sensibilities and comprises longer, more meditative pieces aimed at the generative, creative, and even reparative work of childcare and writing. In "Human Relationships," the author creates a unique bond with the reader over the span of her own lifetime; "Silence" acts almost as a companion piece and adds dimensions to its observations on compassion. "My Vocation"鈥攐ne of Ginzburg's most cited works and my personal favourite鈥攅xpounds on her relationship with writing through its crests and troughs, demonstrating too the ways in which she, as Rachel Cusk says in her introduction, gives a new template for the female voice and what it might sound like. The volume closes with the moral crescendo of the groundbreaking title essay, which urges readers to look beyond convention and at a more honest and harmonious way of parenting our children and, in my interpretation, our own selves.
Though I rarely enjoy essay collections from start to finish, I relished this one throughout. On the occasions I disagreed with what the author was saying, I was still in awe of the art with which she said it. The Little Virtues felt to me a warm, glowing thing that I would like to keep and seek out for equal measures of comfort and instruction (much like what I believe Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet may be to some people). I would like to get myself a copy of my own and underline away鈥擨 would suggest you do, too.
February 18, 2022
(3.5) Enjoyable collection of essays, on subjects such as war, how inescapably miserable and insular ("dissatisfied with itself") England is, how crap English food is ("...those cakes鈥攕o prettily covered in chocolate and dotted with almonds鈥攁re, when you eat them, like a paste made of coal-dust or sand") the mystery and tyranny of writing as a vocation and the difficulty of parenthood. The best piece, 'Human Relationships', is the one absolutely essential essay in the collection.
'Now I discovered that it is tiring to write something seriously. It is a bad sign if it doesn鈥檛 make you tired. You cannot hope to write something serious frivolously flitting hither and thither, as it were with one hand tied behind your back. You cannot get off so lightly. When someone writes something seriously he is lost in it, he is sucked down into it up to his eyebrows; and if there is a very strong emotion that is preoccupying him, if he is very happy or very unhappy for some let us say mundane reason which has nothing to do with the piece he is writing, then if what he is writing is real and deserves to live all those other feelings will become dormant in him. He cannot hope to keep his dear happiness or dear unhappiness whole and fresh before him; everything goes off into the distance and vanishes and he is left alone with his page; no happiness or unhappiness that is not strictly relevant to that page can exist in him, he cannot possess or belong to anything else鈥攁nd if it does not happen like this, well that is a sign that the page is worthless.'
'But despite all this fuss which is made about food, for the English it remains simply 鈥榝ood鈥�, which is a sad, generalized thing. In novels you read that 鈥榮ome food鈥� was brought, no affectionate or specific description is given. The thousands of tins stacked up in the groceries carry pictures of the most various and mouth-watering animals鈥攑heasants, partridges, different kinds of deer, and they are stamped with the enticing names of distant countries which it would be marvellous to visit. But anyone who has been here for some time is unimpressed, he knows very well that the contents of these tins are 鈥榝ood鈥�, which is to say nothing. Nothing that could be eaten with enjoyment and a quiet mind anyway.'
'As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; nor shrewdness but frankness and a love of truth; not tact but love for one鈥檚 neighbour and self-denial; not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know.'
'Now I discovered that it is tiring to write something seriously. It is a bad sign if it doesn鈥檛 make you tired. You cannot hope to write something serious frivolously flitting hither and thither, as it were with one hand tied behind your back. You cannot get off so lightly. When someone writes something seriously he is lost in it, he is sucked down into it up to his eyebrows; and if there is a very strong emotion that is preoccupying him, if he is very happy or very unhappy for some let us say mundane reason which has nothing to do with the piece he is writing, then if what he is writing is real and deserves to live all those other feelings will become dormant in him. He cannot hope to keep his dear happiness or dear unhappiness whole and fresh before him; everything goes off into the distance and vanishes and he is left alone with his page; no happiness or unhappiness that is not strictly relevant to that page can exist in him, he cannot possess or belong to anything else鈥攁nd if it does not happen like this, well that is a sign that the page is worthless.'
'But despite all this fuss which is made about food, for the English it remains simply 鈥榝ood鈥�, which is a sad, generalized thing. In novels you read that 鈥榮ome food鈥� was brought, no affectionate or specific description is given. The thousands of tins stacked up in the groceries carry pictures of the most various and mouth-watering animals鈥攑heasants, partridges, different kinds of deer, and they are stamped with the enticing names of distant countries which it would be marvellous to visit. But anyone who has been here for some time is unimpressed, he knows very well that the contents of these tins are 鈥榝ood鈥�, which is to say nothing. Nothing that could be eaten with enjoyment and a quiet mind anyway.'
'As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; nor shrewdness but frankness and a love of truth; not tact but love for one鈥檚 neighbour and self-denial; not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know.'
May 10, 2021
3.5
Though her topics are sympathetic, the persona Ginzburg writes from in these nonfiction pieces/essays doesn鈥檛 make it easy for the reader to relate to her. Some essays are written鈥攐r at least translated鈥攊n the first-person plural, likely for both distancing and communal effects. It works well the first time, but later, particularly in a piece called 鈥淩elationships,鈥� it felt unnecessary and, after the opening, awkward. The account of her and her family fleeing their home in Nazi-occupied Italy is written with sufficient detail and emotion; but after they are established in another home, a tragic event is left tantalizing bare. An essay complaining about the English way of life might seem grumpy鈥攊t likely is鈥攂ut I thought at least some of it was intentionally humorous. Her philosophy on vocation, her reason for writing, is impassioned. Though it felt preachy to me in its beginning, the title essay is similarly impassioned.
Though her topics are sympathetic, the persona Ginzburg writes from in these nonfiction pieces/essays doesn鈥檛 make it easy for the reader to relate to her. Some essays are written鈥攐r at least translated鈥攊n the first-person plural, likely for both distancing and communal effects. It works well the first time, but later, particularly in a piece called 鈥淩elationships,鈥� it felt unnecessary and, after the opening, awkward. The account of her and her family fleeing their home in Nazi-occupied Italy is written with sufficient detail and emotion; but after they are established in another home, a tragic event is left tantalizing bare. An essay complaining about the English way of life might seem grumpy鈥攊t likely is鈥攂ut I thought at least some of it was intentionally humorous. Her philosophy on vocation, her reason for writing, is impassioned. Though it felt preachy to me in its beginning, the title essay is similarly impassioned.
May 10, 2024
This was my bedtime reading for a few nights. Ginzburg really is a brilliant thinker. The longest essay, Human Relationships, was so evocative of all stages we go through as we age and change perceptions about former passionate beliefs. I didn't much agree with the title essay though.
September 2, 2015
蹖讴賳賵丕禺鬲蹖 讴爻賱 讴賳賳丿賴 丕蹖 丿乇 爻乇賳賵卮鬲 丕賳爻丕賳 丕爻鬲. 爻乇賳賵卮鬲 賲丕 胤亘賯 賯賵丕賳蹖賳 讴賴賳 賵 睾蹖乇賯丕亘賱 鬲睾蹖蹖乇貙 胤亘賯 囟乇亘丕賴賳诏蹖 賲賳馗賲 賵 丿蹖乇蹖賳 亘賴 倬蹖卮 賲蹖 乇賵丿.
乇賵蹖丕賴丕 賴乇诏夭 亘賴 丨賯蹖賯鬲 賳賲蹖 倬蹖賵賳丿賳丿 賵 亘賴 賲丨囟 丕蹖賳讴賴 丌賳賴丕 乇丕 亘乇亘丕丿 乇賮鬲賴 賲蹖 亘蹖賳蹖賲貙 蹖讴亘丕乇賴 賲鬲賵噩賴 賲蹖 卮賵蹖賲 讴賴 卮丕丿蹖 賴丕蹖 亘夭乇诏鬲乇 夭賳丿诏丕賳蹖 賲丕賳貙 丿賵乇 丕夭 賵丕賯毓蹖鬲 亘賵丿賴 丕爻鬲.
亘賴 賲丨囟 丕蹖賳讴賴 乇賵蹖丕賴丕蹖賲丕賳 乇丕 亘乇亘丕丿 乇賮鬲賴 賲蹖 亘蹖賳蹖賲貙 亘禺丕胤乇 賲丿鬲 夭蹖丕丿蹖 讴賴 丿乇 賲丕 賵賱賵賱賴 亘乇倬丕 賲蹖 讴乇丿賳丿貙 丕夭 丿賱鬲賳诏蹖 讴賱丕賮賴 賲蹖 卮賵蹖賲.
鬲賯丿蹖乇 賲丕 丿乇 賮乇丕夭 賵 賳卮蹖亘 丕賲蹖丿 賵 丿賱鬲賳诏蹖 噩乇蹖丕賳 丿丕乇丿.
亘毓囟蹖 倬丕乇丕诏乇丕賮賴丕蹖 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 乇賵 賵丕賯毓賳 丿賵爻鬲 丿丕卮鬲賲. 丨乇賮賴丕蹖 賲賱賲賵爻 賵 賯丕亘賱 丿乇讴蹖 丕夭 噩賳诏貙 丕夭 賲乇丿賲貙 丕夭 爻讴賵鬲 賵 丕夭 乇賵丕亘胤 丕賳爻丕賳蹖 夭丿賴. 丕夭 鬲賮丕賵鬲 賳爻賱 賴丕 诏賮鬲賴 賵 丕夭 鬲睾蹖蹖乇 鬲丿乇蹖噩蹖 賳诏乇卮賴丕蹖 賮乇丿蹖 亘丕 鬲賵噩賴 亘賴 夭賳丿诏蹖.
丿乇 讴賱 禺賵亘 亘賵丿貙 賵賱蹖 丌賳趩賳丕賳 讴賴 賲蹖 亘丕蹖爻鬲貙 賯賵蹖 賳亘賵丿.
乇賵蹖丕賴丕 賴乇诏夭 亘賴 丨賯蹖賯鬲 賳賲蹖 倬蹖賵賳丿賳丿 賵 亘賴 賲丨囟 丕蹖賳讴賴 丌賳賴丕 乇丕 亘乇亘丕丿 乇賮鬲賴 賲蹖 亘蹖賳蹖賲貙 蹖讴亘丕乇賴 賲鬲賵噩賴 賲蹖 卮賵蹖賲 讴賴 卮丕丿蹖 賴丕蹖 亘夭乇诏鬲乇 夭賳丿诏丕賳蹖 賲丕賳貙 丿賵乇 丕夭 賵丕賯毓蹖鬲 亘賵丿賴 丕爻鬲.
亘賴 賲丨囟 丕蹖賳讴賴 乇賵蹖丕賴丕蹖賲丕賳 乇丕 亘乇亘丕丿 乇賮鬲賴 賲蹖 亘蹖賳蹖賲貙 亘禺丕胤乇 賲丿鬲 夭蹖丕丿蹖 讴賴 丿乇 賲丕 賵賱賵賱賴 亘乇倬丕 賲蹖 讴乇丿賳丿貙 丕夭 丿賱鬲賳诏蹖 讴賱丕賮賴 賲蹖 卮賵蹖賲.
鬲賯丿蹖乇 賲丕 丿乇 賮乇丕夭 賵 賳卮蹖亘 丕賲蹖丿 賵 丿賱鬲賳诏蹖 噩乇蹖丕賳 丿丕乇丿.
亘毓囟蹖 倬丕乇丕诏乇丕賮賴丕蹖 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 乇賵 賵丕賯毓賳 丿賵爻鬲 丿丕卮鬲賲. 丨乇賮賴丕蹖 賲賱賲賵爻 賵 賯丕亘賱 丿乇讴蹖 丕夭 噩賳诏貙 丕夭 賲乇丿賲貙 丕夭 爻讴賵鬲 賵 丕夭 乇賵丕亘胤 丕賳爻丕賳蹖 夭丿賴. 丕夭 鬲賮丕賵鬲 賳爻賱 賴丕 诏賮鬲賴 賵 丕夭 鬲睾蹖蹖乇 鬲丿乇蹖噩蹖 賳诏乇卮賴丕蹖 賮乇丿蹖 亘丕 鬲賵噩賴 亘賴 夭賳丿诏蹖.
丿乇 讴賱 禺賵亘 亘賵丿貙 賵賱蹖 丌賳趩賳丕賳 讴賴 賲蹖 亘丕蹖爻鬲貙 賯賵蹖 賳亘賵丿.
March 4, 2025
There are seven essays that comprise The Little Virtues.
Winter in the Abruzzi - Beautifully written and poignant. It is a memoir of her time in Abruzzi with her family before her husband is taken back to Rome and tortured there.
Worn Out Shoes - The worn out shoes represent her freedom in the city. Life is hard, but she is unencumbered with responsibility for anything but herself, and when she returns to her children, she says she must put on good, solid shoes. She prefers her worn shoes, but she wonders what kind her children will wear: 鈥淲ill they decide to give up everything that is pleasant but not necessary, or will they affirm that everything is necessary and that men have the right to wear sound, solid shoes on their feet?鈥�
Portrait of a Friend - The friend is a poet who roams the city and sees much that the others cannot see, but also fails to find a place in the routine simplicity of life, until he cannot carry the burden of life at all. This tribute is both a mourning, and perhaps a kind of warning against the dangers of being too individual and apart.
The Next two England: Eulogy and Lament and La Maison Volpe are a kind of mourning for home. She is a little rough on the English, but I think she is missing home, the excitement and impetuosity of the Italians, and England seems so staid and proper and predetermined.
He and I - I loved this essay. It paints an exact picture of her husband, loving and debonair, intelligent and overly self-important, superior, and exasperating. They are opposites in so many ways, and yet I could feel in the writing that she loves and admires him. There is the under-current of how a woman, in this time, has to navigate the world in a man鈥檚 shadow. There is also the tinge of sorrow or loss that always seems to permeate her writing. He is her second husband, and I could not help wondering how often memories of the first intrude.
The Son of Man - She talks about the loss of peace and security that began for them even before the war, with the arrival of the fascist regime, her war experience, and the fear and uncertainty that it engenders.
鈥淭hose of us who have been fugitives will never be at peace. A ring at the door-bell in the middle of the night can only mean the word 鈥榩olice鈥� to us.鈥�
鈥淥nce the experience of evil has been endured it is never forgotten鈥�
鈥淏ut the certainties of the past have been snatched from us, and faith has never after all been a place for sleeping in.鈥�
My Vocation - How wonderful it must be to be so sure of what one is born to do; to feel so competent at it and to never wonder if you are doing it well or if it is worth doing at all. But, she describes in detail the difficulty, particularly the emotional difficulty, in having this vocation choose you and how inescapable it is if it does. I marked a dozen quotes from this one. I love writers on writing.
Silence - 鈥淎 man has no choice but to accept his face as he has no choice but to accept his destiny: and the only choice he is permitted is the choice between good and evil, between justice and injustice, between truth and lies. The things they tell those of us who go to be psychoanalysed are of no use to us because they do not take our moral responsibility鈥攚hich is the only choice permitted us in life鈥攊nto account; those of us who have been psychoanalysed know only too well how rarefied, unnatural and finally unbreathable is that atmosphere of ephemeral freedom in which we live just as we wish.鈥�
She lived through Fascism and saw a world that was silenced. She says 鈥淪ilence is a mortal illness鈥� and that she knows how many it has killed, some by their own hand.
Human Relationships - She manages to go the distance from early childhood to adult disappointment in this essay鈥揳n amazing feat. She begins with being small and not understanding, being adolescent and understanding but not comprehending, to being independent and sure of oneself, and finally to being adult and knowing the cruelty of the world that is only viewed from afar in the other stages. Having experienced the horrors of fascist Italy and having been exiled herself with her family, she has a unique perspective on the attempt to love one鈥檚 neighbor, the fears that accompany motherhood and the responsibility for the life of a child, and the trials of sinking from comfort to poverty.
Human relationships have to be rediscovered and reinvented every day. We have to remember constantly that every kind of meeting with our neighbour is a human action and so it is always evil or good, true or deceitful, a kindness or a sin.
The Little Virtues - Perhaps her finest essay, and the one from which she takes the title of her book. The little virtues are thrift, caution, shrewdness, tact, and desire for success. She says they are the ones we teach our children, and that it is an error. The little virtues are defensive and she believes they lead to 鈥渃ynicism or to a fear of life.鈥� She does not think the little virtues are wrong or contemptible, she just thinks they are secondary to the Great Virtues, the ones we should be teaching. The Great Virtues are generosity and an indifference to money, courage and a contempt for danger, frankness and a love of truth, love for one鈥檚 neighbor and self-denial, and a desire to be and to know. Her thoughts on money, its purpose in our lives, and success and how we define it, are particularly good. I think we could raise better children using her concepts.
Just a terrific and meaningful set of thoughts from a woman I think it would have been a privilege to have known.
Winter in the Abruzzi - Beautifully written and poignant. It is a memoir of her time in Abruzzi with her family before her husband is taken back to Rome and tortured there.
Worn Out Shoes - The worn out shoes represent her freedom in the city. Life is hard, but she is unencumbered with responsibility for anything but herself, and when she returns to her children, she says she must put on good, solid shoes. She prefers her worn shoes, but she wonders what kind her children will wear: 鈥淲ill they decide to give up everything that is pleasant but not necessary, or will they affirm that everything is necessary and that men have the right to wear sound, solid shoes on their feet?鈥�
Portrait of a Friend - The friend is a poet who roams the city and sees much that the others cannot see, but also fails to find a place in the routine simplicity of life, until he cannot carry the burden of life at all. This tribute is both a mourning, and perhaps a kind of warning against the dangers of being too individual and apart.
The Next two England: Eulogy and Lament and La Maison Volpe are a kind of mourning for home. She is a little rough on the English, but I think she is missing home, the excitement and impetuosity of the Italians, and England seems so staid and proper and predetermined.
He and I - I loved this essay. It paints an exact picture of her husband, loving and debonair, intelligent and overly self-important, superior, and exasperating. They are opposites in so many ways, and yet I could feel in the writing that she loves and admires him. There is the under-current of how a woman, in this time, has to navigate the world in a man鈥檚 shadow. There is also the tinge of sorrow or loss that always seems to permeate her writing. He is her second husband, and I could not help wondering how often memories of the first intrude.
The Son of Man - She talks about the loss of peace and security that began for them even before the war, with the arrival of the fascist regime, her war experience, and the fear and uncertainty that it engenders.
鈥淭hose of us who have been fugitives will never be at peace. A ring at the door-bell in the middle of the night can only mean the word 鈥榩olice鈥� to us.鈥�
鈥淥nce the experience of evil has been endured it is never forgotten鈥�
鈥淏ut the certainties of the past have been snatched from us, and faith has never after all been a place for sleeping in.鈥�
My Vocation - How wonderful it must be to be so sure of what one is born to do; to feel so competent at it and to never wonder if you are doing it well or if it is worth doing at all. But, she describes in detail the difficulty, particularly the emotional difficulty, in having this vocation choose you and how inescapable it is if it does. I marked a dozen quotes from this one. I love writers on writing.
Silence - 鈥淎 man has no choice but to accept his face as he has no choice but to accept his destiny: and the only choice he is permitted is the choice between good and evil, between justice and injustice, between truth and lies. The things they tell those of us who go to be psychoanalysed are of no use to us because they do not take our moral responsibility鈥攚hich is the only choice permitted us in life鈥攊nto account; those of us who have been psychoanalysed know only too well how rarefied, unnatural and finally unbreathable is that atmosphere of ephemeral freedom in which we live just as we wish.鈥�
She lived through Fascism and saw a world that was silenced. She says 鈥淪ilence is a mortal illness鈥� and that she knows how many it has killed, some by their own hand.
Human Relationships - She manages to go the distance from early childhood to adult disappointment in this essay鈥揳n amazing feat. She begins with being small and not understanding, being adolescent and understanding but not comprehending, to being independent and sure of oneself, and finally to being adult and knowing the cruelty of the world that is only viewed from afar in the other stages. Having experienced the horrors of fascist Italy and having been exiled herself with her family, she has a unique perspective on the attempt to love one鈥檚 neighbor, the fears that accompany motherhood and the responsibility for the life of a child, and the trials of sinking from comfort to poverty.
Human relationships have to be rediscovered and reinvented every day. We have to remember constantly that every kind of meeting with our neighbour is a human action and so it is always evil or good, true or deceitful, a kindness or a sin.
The Little Virtues - Perhaps her finest essay, and the one from which she takes the title of her book. The little virtues are thrift, caution, shrewdness, tact, and desire for success. She says they are the ones we teach our children, and that it is an error. The little virtues are defensive and she believes they lead to 鈥渃ynicism or to a fear of life.鈥� She does not think the little virtues are wrong or contemptible, she just thinks they are secondary to the Great Virtues, the ones we should be teaching. The Great Virtues are generosity and an indifference to money, courage and a contempt for danger, frankness and a love of truth, love for one鈥檚 neighbor and self-denial, and a desire to be and to know. Her thoughts on money, its purpose in our lives, and success and how we define it, are particularly good. I think we could raise better children using her concepts.
Just a terrific and meaningful set of thoughts from a woman I think it would have been a privilege to have known.
October 4, 2016
Esta peque帽a obra est谩 compuesta por una colecci贸n de once breves ensayos-relatos de la escritora italiana Natalia Ginzburg (1916-1991), quien se me ha revelado como una escritora muy apreciada, a pesar de que ella se considerase como una peque帽a escritora.
Su narrativa es extraordinariamente sencilla y misteriosamente bella. Durante esta obra la escritora entrelaza magn铆ficamente algunas de sus experiencias de vida con temas que incumben a todos nosotros y que reverberan en nuestro interior; temas como la educaci贸n, las virtudes, el pr贸jimo, la pobreza, los hijos, el oficio de escribir, la persona con la que compartimos nuestra vida, la fraternidad, las relaciones humanas y algunos otros que aborda con un estilo muy particular que podr铆a parecer anodino.
Me parece que la actividad de escribir no es nada f谩cil. Hablar en un acto espont谩neo, escribir es un acto meditado y programado previamente que requiere de todo un proceso de planeaci贸n, organizaci贸n y traducci贸n de las ideas. Poder plasmar en un papel clara y coherentemente las ideas que surgen de nuestras mentes requiere de ciertas habilidades como un alto nivel de claridad de pensamiento y una alta capacidad tanto de invenci贸n como de transmisi贸n.
Ahora bien, escribir como lo hace Natalia Ginzburg con esa claridad proverbial , con esa sencillez, con ese poder para tocar las fibras sensibles de los lectores, significa que su prosa ha llegado a un punto de desarrollo muy alto. Podr铆amos decir que su obra posee el dif铆cil y profundo encanto de la sencillez.
La narrativa de Ginzburg es emotiva e 铆ntima. Tratando de hacer una alegor铆a con la m煤sica, podr铆amos decir que la m煤sica de Bach va hacia todo el Universo, lo invade; la de Beethoven se dirige y le habla con una poderosa emotividad a toda la humanidad, la de Shostakovich est谩 destinada a aliviar y motivar a una doliente sociedad y la de Tchaikovski nos habla dulcemente al o铆do a cada uno de nosotros, nos aborda de una manera personal, de una manera intimista. Al igual que el m煤sico ruso, Natalia Ginzburg nos aborda a trav茅s de su obra de una manera 铆ntima, familiar e individual.
Su narrativa es extraordinariamente sencilla y misteriosamente bella. Durante esta obra la escritora entrelaza magn铆ficamente algunas de sus experiencias de vida con temas que incumben a todos nosotros y que reverberan en nuestro interior; temas como la educaci贸n, las virtudes, el pr贸jimo, la pobreza, los hijos, el oficio de escribir, la persona con la que compartimos nuestra vida, la fraternidad, las relaciones humanas y algunos otros que aborda con un estilo muy particular que podr铆a parecer anodino.
Me parece que la actividad de escribir no es nada f谩cil. Hablar en un acto espont谩neo, escribir es un acto meditado y programado previamente que requiere de todo un proceso de planeaci贸n, organizaci贸n y traducci贸n de las ideas. Poder plasmar en un papel clara y coherentemente las ideas que surgen de nuestras mentes requiere de ciertas habilidades como un alto nivel de claridad de pensamiento y una alta capacidad tanto de invenci贸n como de transmisi贸n.
Ahora bien, escribir como lo hace Natalia Ginzburg con esa claridad proverbial , con esa sencillez, con ese poder para tocar las fibras sensibles de los lectores, significa que su prosa ha llegado a un punto de desarrollo muy alto. Podr铆amos decir que su obra posee el dif铆cil y profundo encanto de la sencillez.
La narrativa de Ginzburg es emotiva e 铆ntima. Tratando de hacer una alegor铆a con la m煤sica, podr铆amos decir que la m煤sica de Bach va hacia todo el Universo, lo invade; la de Beethoven se dirige y le habla con una poderosa emotividad a toda la humanidad, la de Shostakovich est谩 destinada a aliviar y motivar a una doliente sociedad y la de Tchaikovski nos habla dulcemente al o铆do a cada uno de nosotros, nos aborda de una manera personal, de una manera intimista. Al igual que el m煤sico ruso, Natalia Ginzburg nos aborda a trav茅s de su obra de una manera 铆ntima, familiar e individual.
October 3, 2023
丌賴 丕夭 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘... 賲噩賲賵毓賴鈥屫й� 丕夭 蹖丕夭丿賴 噩爻鬲丕乇貙 趩蹖夭蹖 賲丕 亘蹖賳 賴賲賴 趩蹖夭. 蹖丕丿丿丕卮鬲鈥屬囏й屰� 丿乇賲賵乇丿 夭賳丿诏蹖... 亘蹖鈥屬嗁囏й屫� 丿賵爻鬲卮 丿丕卮鬲賲. 賳賵毓 賳诏丕賴卮 亘賴 夭賳丿诏蹖貙 亘賴 賲爻丕卅賱貙 丨爻鈥屬囏й屰� 讴賴 賳賵卮鬲賴 卮丿賴 亘賵丿 賵 鬲丕 丨丕賱丕 賴蹖趩鈥屫� 賳丿蹖丿賴 亘賵丿賲卮丕賳. 噩丕蹖蹖 丕夭 毓賲賯 賯賱亘賲 乇賵 賱賲爻 讴乇丿 賵 賲胤賲卅賳賲 讴賴 亘丕乇賴丕 亘賴卮 亘乇賲蹖鈥屭必�. 賲賯丿丕乇 夭蹖丕丿蹖卮 乇賵 丿賱賲 賲蹖鈥屫堌ж� 亘賱賳丿 亘禺賵賳賲 賵 氐丿丕賲 乇賵 囟亘胤 讴賳賲. 賵 賵賯鬲蹖 倬賵賱丿丕乇鬲乇 丕夭 賵囟毓蹖鬲 丨丕囟乇賲 卮丿賲貙 丕丨鬲賲丕賱丕 鬲毓丿丕丿蹖 丕夭卮 乇賵 禺賵丕賴賲 禺乇蹖丿 鬲丕 亘賴 丌丿賲鈥屬囏й屰� 讴賴 丨爻 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁� 丿乇讴卮 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁嗀� 賴丿蹖賴 亘丿賲. (賴賲蹖賳噩丕 蹖賴 倬乇丕賳鬲夭 亘丕夭 讴賳賲 賵 亘诏賲 丕丨鬲賲丕賱 禺蹖賱蹖 亘丕賱丕蹖蹖 賴爻鬲 讴賴 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 乇賵 丕氐賱丕 丿賵爻鬲 賳丿丕卮鬲賴 亘丕卮蹖丿. 蹖賴 賲丿賱 毓噩蹖亘蹖賴. 蹖賴 噩賵乇蹖 卮亘蹖賴 賴蹖趩蹖 賳蹖爻鬲! 倬丕蹖丕賳 倬乇丕賳鬲夭) 賲禺氐賵氐丕 亘賴 讴爻丕蹖蹖 讴賴 賳賵卮鬲賳 乇賵 丿賵爻鬲 丿丕乇賳. :) 蹖賴 噩丕蹖蹖 丕夭 讴鬲丕亘 亘賵丿 讴賴 丨鬲蹖 賲賳 乇賵 賴賲 亘賴 賳賵卮鬲賳 賲卮鬲丕賯 讴乇丿賴 亘賵丿 賵 丿賱賲 賲蹖鈥屫堌ж池� 卮乇賵毓 亘賴 賳賵卮鬲賳 讴賳賲. 賳丕鬲丕賱蹖丕 诏蹖賳夭亘賵乇诏 丕夭 丕賵賳 賳賵蹖爻賳丿赖鈥屬囏й屰� 卮丿 讴賴 丿賱賲 賲蹖鈥屫堌ж� 賴賲賴 讴鬲丕亘鈥屬囏ж促� 亘禺賵賳賲.
May 21, 2018
Este conjunto de ensayos quiz谩s compongan una de las m谩s bellas autobiograf铆as de la literatura del siglo XX. La escritura de Ginzburg, ya hable de su confinamiento en los Abruzzos durante la guerra, ya hable de la vida en Inglaterra, es de una sencillez aparente pero de una agudeza extrema, como la de esos d铆as claros en los que se pueden ver mejor los detalles de la lejan铆a. Quiz谩s es el ensayo que da t铆tulo el libro el que menos me interesa, lleno de moral did谩ctica, pero es magistral en ese retrato de Pavese, que casi equivale a haberlo tratado en persona.
November 9, 2018
丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 丿乇 丕賵丕禺乇 噩賳诏 噩賴丕賳蹖 丿賵賲 賳賵卮鬲賴 卮丿賴 賵 丿丕乇丕蹖 郾郾 賳賵卮鬲賴鈥屰� 讴賵鬲丕賴 亘丕 毓賳賵丕蹖賳 賲禺鬲賱賮 丿乇賲賵乇丿 夭賳丿诏蹖 卮禺氐蹖 賳賵蹖爻賳丿赖 丕爻鬲. 爻亘讴 賳賵卮鬲賴 胤賵乇蹖賴 讴賴 丕賳诏丕乇 賳丕鬲丕賱蹖丕 诏蹖賳夭亘賵乇诏 賳卮爻鬲賴 讴賳丕乇 卮賲丕 賵 亘丕 氐丿丕賯鬲蹖 丿賱賳卮蹖賳 丿丕乇賴 丕夭 丿睾丿睾賴鈥屬囏ж� 亘丕賴丕鬲賵賳 丿乇丿 賵 丿賱 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁�.
亘禺卮蹖 丕夭 賳賵卮鬲賴 讴賮卮鈥屬囏й� 倬丕乇賴 :
芦讴賮卮鈥屬囏й屬� 倬丕乇賴 丕爻鬲 賵 丿賵爻鬲蹖 賴賲 讴賴 丨丕賱丕 亘丕 丕賵 夭賳丿诏蹖 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁呚� 讴賮卮鈥屬囏й屫� 倬丕乇賴 丕爻鬲. 賵賯鬲蹖 讴賴 亘丕賴賲 賴爻鬲蹖賲貙 睾丕賱亘兀 丕夭 讴賮卮 氐丨亘鬲 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗃屬�. 賵賯鬲蹖 亘丕 丕賵 丕夭 夭賲丕賳蹖 讴賴 賳賵蹖爻賳丿赖鈥屰� 趩蹖乇賴鈥屫池� 賵 賲卮賴賵乇蹖 禺賵丕賴賲 卮丿 氐丨亘鬲 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁呚� 亘賱丕賮丕氐賱賴 丕夭 賲賳 賲蹖鈥屬矩必池�:芦趩賴 讴賮卮鈥屬囏й屰� 禺賵丕賴蹖 丿丕卮鬲責禄 丌賳 賵賯鬲 亘賴 丕賵 賲蹖鈥屭堐屬� :芦讴賮卮鈥屬囏й屰� 禺賵丕賴賲 丿丕卮鬲 丕夭 趩乇賲 爻亘夭貙 亘丕 爻诏讴蹖 胤賱丕蹖蹖 丿乇 蹖讴 胤乇賮 丌賳.禄
亘禺卮蹖 丕夭 賳賵卮鬲賴 讴賮卮鈥屬囏й� 倬丕乇賴 :
芦讴賮卮鈥屬囏й屬� 倬丕乇賴 丕爻鬲 賵 丿賵爻鬲蹖 賴賲 讴賴 丨丕賱丕 亘丕 丕賵 夭賳丿诏蹖 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁呚� 讴賮卮鈥屬囏й屫� 倬丕乇賴 丕爻鬲. 賵賯鬲蹖 讴賴 亘丕賴賲 賴爻鬲蹖賲貙 睾丕賱亘兀 丕夭 讴賮卮 氐丨亘鬲 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗃屬�. 賵賯鬲蹖 亘丕 丕賵 丕夭 夭賲丕賳蹖 讴賴 賳賵蹖爻賳丿赖鈥屰� 趩蹖乇賴鈥屫池� 賵 賲卮賴賵乇蹖 禺賵丕賴賲 卮丿 氐丨亘鬲 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁呚� 亘賱丕賮丕氐賱賴 丕夭 賲賳 賲蹖鈥屬矩必池�:芦趩賴 讴賮卮鈥屬囏й屰� 禺賵丕賴蹖 丿丕卮鬲責禄 丌賳 賵賯鬲 亘賴 丕賵 賲蹖鈥屭堐屬� :芦讴賮卮鈥屬囏й屰� 禺賵丕賴賲 丿丕卮鬲 丕夭 趩乇賲 爻亘夭貙 亘丕 爻诏讴蹖 胤賱丕蹖蹖 丿乇 蹖讴 胤乇賮 丌賳.禄
October 2, 2009
讴爻蹖 讴賴 蹖讴 亘丕乇 乇賳噩 讴卮蹖丿賴 丕爻鬲貙 鬲噩乇亘賴 蹖 丿乇丿 乇丕 賴乇诏夭 賮乇丕賲賵卮 賳賲蹖 讴賳丿. 讴爻蹖 讴賴 賵蹖乇丕賳蹖 禺丕賳賴 賴丕 乇丕 丿蹖丿賴 丕爻鬲貙 亘賴 賵囟賵丨 讴丕賲賱 賲蹖 丿丕賳丿 讴賴 诏賱丿丕賳 賴丕蹖 诏賱貙 鬲丕亘賱賵賴丕 賵 丿蹖賵丕乇賴丕蹖 爻倬蹖丿貙 丕卮蹖丕蹖蹖 賳丕倬丕蹖丿丕乇賳丿. 禺賵亘 賲蹖 丿丕賳丿 禺丕賳賴 丕夭 趩賴 趩蹖夭 爻丕禺鬲賴 卮丿賴 丕爻鬲. 蹖讴 禺丕賳賴 丕夭 丌噩乇 賵 诏趩 爻丕禺鬲賴 卮丿賴 丕爻鬲 賵 賲蹖 鬲賵丕賳丿 賮乇賵 乇蹖夭丿. 蹖讴 禺丕賳賴 禺蹖賱蹖 賲丨讴賲 賳蹖爻鬲. 賴乇 賱丨馗賴 賲蹖 鬲賵丕賳丿 賮乇賵 乇蹖夭丿. 丿乇 倬爻 诏賱丿丕賳 賴丕蹖 丌乇丕賲 诏賱貙 倬卮鬲 賯賵乇蹖 賴丕蹖 趩丕蹖貙 賮乇卮 賴丕貙 讴賮 丕鬲丕賯 賴丕 讴賴 亘丕 賲賵賲 亘乇賯 丕賮鬲丕丿賴 丕爻鬲貙 趩賴乇賴 蹖 丿蹖诏乇 賵丕賯毓蹖 禺丕賳賴 丕爻鬲. 趩賴乇賴 蹖 亘蹖 乇丨賲 禺丕賳賴 蹖 賵蹖乇丕賳 卮丿賴
February 15, 2021
As always with this author, this short book was a pleasure to read. Perfect style and interesting, sometimes autobiographical, stories. It would be 5 stars were it not for the final 3 essays that I found a bit boring.
June 22, 2024
賮囟蹖賱鬲鈥屬囏й� 賳丕趩蹖夭貙 賲噩賲賵毓賴鈥屰� 噩爻鬲丕乇賴丕蹖蹖 讴賴 诏蹖賳夭亘賵乇诏 丿乇 爻丕賱鈥屬囏й屰� 亘賴 賳诏丕乇卮 丿乇丌賵乇丿賴 讴賴 丕乇賵倬丕 (丨丿丕賯賱 丿乇 馗丕賴乇) 乇賵夭賴丕蹖 鬲賱禺 賮丕卮蹖爻賲 乇丕 倬卮鬲 爻乇 诏匕丕卮鬲賴 丕賲丕 亘丕夭賲丕賳丿诏丕賳卮 賴賳賵夭 爻丕蹖賴鈥屫й� 爻賳诏蹖賳 賵 賲賴蹖亘 丌賳 乇丕 丿乇 倬爻 丕賮讴丕乇卮丕賳 丨爻 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁嗀�.
诏蹖賳夭亘賵乇诏 诏乇蹖夭蹖 賲蹖鈥屫操嗀� 亘賴 夭賳丿诏蹖 鬲亘毓蹖丿蹖 丿乇 乇賵爻鬲丕蹖蹖 丿乇 噩賳賵亘 丕蹖鬲丕賱蹖丕. 賳賵毓蹖 夭賳丿诏蹖 讴賴 鬲噩乇亘賴鈥� 讴乇丿賳卮 亘乇丕蹖 丕賵貙 賴賲爻乇 賵 爻賴 賮乇夭賳丿卮 鬲賵賮蹖賯蹖 丕噩亘丕乇蹖 亘賵丿 讴賴 賮毓丕賱蹖鬲 毓賱蹖賴 乇跇蹖賲 賲賵爻賵賱蹖賳蹖 賳氐蹖亘 丌賳賴丕 讴乇丿賴 亘賵丿. 丕賵 丕蹖賳 夭賳丿诏蹖 乇賵爻鬲丕蹖蹖 丿乇 丿賱 睾乇蹖亘賴鈥屬囏� 乇丕 丿乇 鬲囟丕丿蹖 卮蹖乇蹖賳 亘丕 夭賳丿诏蹖 卮賴乇蹖 丿乇 鬲賵乇蹖賳蹖 賲蹖鈥屫ㄛ屬嗀� 讴賴 丿賵爻鬲丕賳 禺丕賳賵丕丿诏蹖鈥屫簇з� 丌賳 乇丕 倬乇 讴乇丿賴 亘賵丿賳丿. 丨丕賱 賳賴 丿賵爻鬲丕賳蹖 亘丕賯蹖 賲丕賳丿賴鈥屫з嗀� 賵 賳賴 丌賳 讴丕賳賵賳 诏乇賲 禺丕賳賵丕丿賴貙 鬲賳賴丕 禺丕胤乇丕鬲 賴爻鬲賳丿 賵 讴賱賲丕鬲蹖 讴賴 亘賴 蹖丕乇蹖 丌賳鈥屬囏� 卮丕蹖丿 亘鬲賵丕賳 亘禺卮蹖 丕夭 丕蹖賳 鬲乇丿蹖丿鈥屬囏ж� 丿賵爻鬲蹖鈥屬囏ж� 鬲乇爻鈥屬囏� 賵 乇賳噩鈥屬囏� 乇丕 夭賳丿賴 讴乇丿 賵 丕賱亘鬲賴 賳賴 賱夭賵賲賳 丕夭 禺賱丕賱 讴賱賲丕鬲蹖 倬乇胤賲胤乇丕賯 賵 丨爻鈥屬囏й屰� 賵丕賱丕貙 亘賱讴賴 丕夭 禺丕胤乇賴鈥屰� 讴賮卮鈥屬囏й� 倬丕乇賴鈥屫й� 讴賴 賳賵蹖爻賳丿赖 丿賵爻鬲 賳丿丕卮鬲 毓賵囟卮丕賳 讴賳丿.
丕賲丕 鬲賲丕賲 噩爻鬲丕乇賴丕 賳蹖夭 賲爻鬲賯蹖賲賳 丕夭 夭賳丿诏蹖鈥屬嗀з呝団€屰� 诏蹖賳夭亘賵乇诏 亘乇賳蹖丕賲丿賴鈥屫з嗀�. 賲賯丕蹖爻賴鈥屰� 賲蹖丕賳 夭賳丿诏蹖 丕賳诏賱蹖爻蹖鈥屬囏� 賵 丕蹖鬲丕賱蹖丕蹖蹖鈥屬囏ж� 賴乇趩賳丿 賲丕賱丕賲丕賱 丕夭 鬲毓賲蹖賲鈥屬囏й� 亘蹖噩丕 賵 睾蹖乇鬲丕乇蹖禺蹖鈥屫池� 丕賲丕 丕賵 亘賴鈥屫堌ㄛ� 乇賵卮賳 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗀� 讴賴 賴丿賮卮 賳賴 倬跇賵賴卮蹖 毓賱賲蹖 丿乇 亘丕亘 噩睾乇丕賮蹖丕 賵 賲乇丿賲鈥屫促嗀ж驰� 丕賳诏賱蹖爻 (讴賴 倬爻 丕夭 噩賳诏 爻丕賱鈥屬囏� 丿乇 丌賳 夭蹖爻鬲賴 亘賵丿)貙 亘賱讴賴 卮讴丕賮鬲賳 丨爻蹖 爻乇丕爻乇 卮禺氐蹖 丕夭 噩賳爻 丿賱鬲賳诏蹖鈥屫池�. 丿賱鬲賳诏蹖 亘乇丕蹖 睾匕丕貙 丿賱鬲賳诏蹖 亘乇丕蹖 禺蹖丕亘丕賳貙 丿賱鬲賳诏蹖 亘乇丕蹖 乇賵夭賴丕蹖蹖 讴賴 亘丕乇蹖 亘賴 賴乇 噩賴鬲 賲蹖鈥屭柏簇� 賵 丿賱鬲賳诏蹖 亘乇丕蹖 賲乇丿賲蹖 讴賴 爻乇卮丕乇 丕夭 丕爻鬲毓丿丕丿賴丕蹖 賴乇夭乇賮鬲賴 亘賵丿賳丿.
賵 亘賱丕禺乇賴 賲蹖鈥屫必驰屬� 亘賴 賳賯胤賴鈥屰� 丕賵噩 讴鬲丕亘 賵 賮氐賱 丿乇禺卮丕賳 乇賵丕亘胤 丕賳爻丕賳蹖. 賮氐賱蹖 讴賴 賳賵蹖爻賳丿赖 丿乇 丌賳 丕夭 乇賵夭賴丕蹖 丿賵乇 讴賵丿讴蹖 卮乇賵毓 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗀�. 禺噩丕賱鬲蹖 讴賴 丕夭 丿毓賵丕蹖 亘賱賳丿 倬丿乇 賵 賲丕丿乇鬲 賲蹖鈥屭┴篡屫� 賵賯鬲蹖 鄯 爻丕賱賴鈥屫й� 賵 亘丕 丿賵爻鬲鬲 丿乇 丨蹖丕胤 倬卮鬲 禺丕賳賴 亘丕夭蹖 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗃�. 鬲丕 乇賵夭賴丕蹖蹖 讴賴 亘蹖鈥屫地ㄘ必з嗁� 賲賳鬲馗乇 噩賱亘 鬲賵噩賴 卮丕诏乇丿 丕賵賱 讴賱丕爻蹖 賵 亘毓丿鬲乇貙 乇賵夭賴丕蹖蹖 讴賴 亘丕 丿賵爻鬲蹖 丕夭 噩賳爻 禺賵丿鬲 亘賴 丌賳 丕賳鬲馗丕乇 亘乇丕蹖 卮丕诏乇丿 丕賵賱 讴賱丕爻 賲蹖鈥屫嗀�. 賵 亘丕夭 乇賵夭賴丕蹖蹖 讴賴 賴賲賴鈥屰� 丕蹖賳鈥屬囏� 乇丕 倬卮鬲 爻乇 賲蹖鈥屭柏ж臂� 賵 賲賳鬲馗乇 芦丌賳 丌丿賲 賲賳丕爻亘禄 賲蹖鈥屬呚з嗃屫� 爻乇 禺蹖丕亘丕賳貙 丿乇 丕蹖爻鬲诏丕賴 丕鬲賵亘賵爻貙 蹖丕 诏賵卮賴鈥屰� 讴丕賮賴鈥屫й�. 賲賳馗賵賲賴鈥屰� 乇賵丕亘胤 丕賳爻丕賳蹖 丕賵 賴賲丕賳鈥屬傌� 讴賴 卮禺氐蹖鈥屫池� 噩賴丕賳鈥屫促呝堎� 賴賲 賴爻鬲 賵 賲蹖鈥屫堌з嗃� 禺賵丿鬲貙 禺丕賳賵丕丿賴鈥屫ж� 丿賵爻鬲丕賳鬲 賵 丌賳 丌丿賲 賲賳丕爻亘 乇丕 丿乇 噩丕蹖鈥屫й� 丌賳 賯乇丕乇 丿賴蹖 賵 卮诏賮鬲鈥屫藏� 卮賵蹖 丕夭 丕蹖賳讴賴 趩胤賵乇 丕蹖賳 夭賳噩蹖乇賴 亘蹖鈥屬堎傎佡� 賵 亘丿賵賳 诏爻爻鬲 倬蹖卮 賲蹖鈥屫辟堌�.
诏蹖賳夭亘賵乇诏 趩賴賱 賵 趩賳丿 爻丕賱賴貙 丿乇 賮氐賱 丌禺乇 讴賲蹖 丕夭 賯丕賱亘 夭賳 賲乇丿丿 賵 禺丕胤乇賴鈥屫ㄘж� 賯亘賱 丿乇賲蹖鈥屫③屫� 賵 丕夭 賵丕賱丿 亘賵丿賳 丨乇賮 賲蹖鈥屫操嗀� 賵 讴賲蹖 鬲賵氐蹖賴鈥屬囏й� 讴丕乇亘乇丿蹖 趩丕卮賳蹖鈥屫ж� 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗀�. 鬲噩乇亘賴鈥屰� 夭蹖爻鬲賴鈥屰� 丕賵 亘賴鈥屫官嗁堌з� 賮乇夭賳丿 蹖讴 禺丕賳賵丕丿賴鈥屰� 乇賵卮賳鈥屬佢┴� 賵 丿丕賳卮诏丕賴蹖貙 卮丕毓乇 賵 賳賵蹖爻賳丿赖貙 賮毓丕賱 囟丿賮丕卮蹖爻鬲貙 賲丕丿乇 爻賴 賮乇夭賳丿 賵 禺乇丿賴鈥屫臂屫测€屬囏й� 丿蹖诏乇蹖 讴賴 禺賵丿卮 賴賲 蹖丕丿卮 賳蹖爻鬲.
(鬲乇噩賲賴 賲丨爻賳 丕亘乇丕賴蹖賲 鈥� 賳卮乇 賴乇賲爻貨 禺賵亘 丕賲丕 賳賴 亘丿賵賳 丕蹖乇丕丿)
诏蹖賳夭亘賵乇诏 诏乇蹖夭蹖 賲蹖鈥屫操嗀� 亘賴 夭賳丿诏蹖 鬲亘毓蹖丿蹖 丿乇 乇賵爻鬲丕蹖蹖 丿乇 噩賳賵亘 丕蹖鬲丕賱蹖丕. 賳賵毓蹖 夭賳丿诏蹖 讴賴 鬲噩乇亘賴鈥� 讴乇丿賳卮 亘乇丕蹖 丕賵貙 賴賲爻乇 賵 爻賴 賮乇夭賳丿卮 鬲賵賮蹖賯蹖 丕噩亘丕乇蹖 亘賵丿 讴賴 賮毓丕賱蹖鬲 毓賱蹖賴 乇跇蹖賲 賲賵爻賵賱蹖賳蹖 賳氐蹖亘 丌賳賴丕 讴乇丿賴 亘賵丿. 丕賵 丕蹖賳 夭賳丿诏蹖 乇賵爻鬲丕蹖蹖 丿乇 丿賱 睾乇蹖亘賴鈥屬囏� 乇丕 丿乇 鬲囟丕丿蹖 卮蹖乇蹖賳 亘丕 夭賳丿诏蹖 卮賴乇蹖 丿乇 鬲賵乇蹖賳蹖 賲蹖鈥屫ㄛ屬嗀� 讴賴 丿賵爻鬲丕賳 禺丕賳賵丕丿诏蹖鈥屫簇з� 丌賳 乇丕 倬乇 讴乇丿賴 亘賵丿賳丿. 丨丕賱 賳賴 丿賵爻鬲丕賳蹖 亘丕賯蹖 賲丕賳丿賴鈥屫з嗀� 賵 賳賴 丌賳 讴丕賳賵賳 诏乇賲 禺丕賳賵丕丿賴貙 鬲賳賴丕 禺丕胤乇丕鬲 賴爻鬲賳丿 賵 讴賱賲丕鬲蹖 讴賴 亘賴 蹖丕乇蹖 丌賳鈥屬囏� 卮丕蹖丿 亘鬲賵丕賳 亘禺卮蹖 丕夭 丕蹖賳 鬲乇丿蹖丿鈥屬囏ж� 丿賵爻鬲蹖鈥屬囏ж� 鬲乇爻鈥屬囏� 賵 乇賳噩鈥屬囏� 乇丕 夭賳丿賴 讴乇丿 賵 丕賱亘鬲賴 賳賴 賱夭賵賲賳 丕夭 禺賱丕賱 讴賱賲丕鬲蹖 倬乇胤賲胤乇丕賯 賵 丨爻鈥屬囏й屰� 賵丕賱丕貙 亘賱讴賴 丕夭 禺丕胤乇賴鈥屰� 讴賮卮鈥屬囏й� 倬丕乇賴鈥屫й� 讴賴 賳賵蹖爻賳丿赖 丿賵爻鬲 賳丿丕卮鬲 毓賵囟卮丕賳 讴賳丿.
丕賲丕 鬲賲丕賲 噩爻鬲丕乇賴丕 賳蹖夭 賲爻鬲賯蹖賲賳 丕夭 夭賳丿诏蹖鈥屬嗀з呝団€屰� 诏蹖賳夭亘賵乇诏 亘乇賳蹖丕賲丿賴鈥屫з嗀�. 賲賯丕蹖爻賴鈥屰� 賲蹖丕賳 夭賳丿诏蹖 丕賳诏賱蹖爻蹖鈥屬囏� 賵 丕蹖鬲丕賱蹖丕蹖蹖鈥屬囏ж� 賴乇趩賳丿 賲丕賱丕賲丕賱 丕夭 鬲毓賲蹖賲鈥屬囏й� 亘蹖噩丕 賵 睾蹖乇鬲丕乇蹖禺蹖鈥屫池� 丕賲丕 丕賵 亘賴鈥屫堌ㄛ� 乇賵卮賳 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗀� 讴賴 賴丿賮卮 賳賴 倬跇賵賴卮蹖 毓賱賲蹖 丿乇 亘丕亘 噩睾乇丕賮蹖丕 賵 賲乇丿賲鈥屫促嗀ж驰� 丕賳诏賱蹖爻 (讴賴 倬爻 丕夭 噩賳诏 爻丕賱鈥屬囏� 丿乇 丌賳 夭蹖爻鬲賴 亘賵丿)貙 亘賱讴賴 卮讴丕賮鬲賳 丨爻蹖 爻乇丕爻乇 卮禺氐蹖 丕夭 噩賳爻 丿賱鬲賳诏蹖鈥屫池�. 丿賱鬲賳诏蹖 亘乇丕蹖 睾匕丕貙 丿賱鬲賳诏蹖 亘乇丕蹖 禺蹖丕亘丕賳貙 丿賱鬲賳诏蹖 亘乇丕蹖 乇賵夭賴丕蹖蹖 讴賴 亘丕乇蹖 亘賴 賴乇 噩賴鬲 賲蹖鈥屭柏簇� 賵 丿賱鬲賳诏蹖 亘乇丕蹖 賲乇丿賲蹖 讴賴 爻乇卮丕乇 丕夭 丕爻鬲毓丿丕丿賴丕蹖 賴乇夭乇賮鬲賴 亘賵丿賳丿.
賵 亘賱丕禺乇賴 賲蹖鈥屫必驰屬� 亘賴 賳賯胤賴鈥屰� 丕賵噩 讴鬲丕亘 賵 賮氐賱 丿乇禺卮丕賳 乇賵丕亘胤 丕賳爻丕賳蹖. 賮氐賱蹖 讴賴 賳賵蹖爻賳丿赖 丿乇 丌賳 丕夭 乇賵夭賴丕蹖 丿賵乇 讴賵丿讴蹖 卮乇賵毓 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗀�. 禺噩丕賱鬲蹖 讴賴 丕夭 丿毓賵丕蹖 亘賱賳丿 倬丿乇 賵 賲丕丿乇鬲 賲蹖鈥屭┴篡屫� 賵賯鬲蹖 鄯 爻丕賱賴鈥屫й� 賵 亘丕 丿賵爻鬲鬲 丿乇 丨蹖丕胤 倬卮鬲 禺丕賳賴 亘丕夭蹖 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗃�. 鬲丕 乇賵夭賴丕蹖蹖 讴賴 亘蹖鈥屫地ㄘ必з嗁� 賲賳鬲馗乇 噩賱亘 鬲賵噩賴 卮丕诏乇丿 丕賵賱 讴賱丕爻蹖 賵 亘毓丿鬲乇貙 乇賵夭賴丕蹖蹖 讴賴 亘丕 丿賵爻鬲蹖 丕夭 噩賳爻 禺賵丿鬲 亘賴 丌賳 丕賳鬲馗丕乇 亘乇丕蹖 卮丕诏乇丿 丕賵賱 讴賱丕爻 賲蹖鈥屫嗀�. 賵 亘丕夭 乇賵夭賴丕蹖蹖 讴賴 賴賲賴鈥屰� 丕蹖賳鈥屬囏� 乇丕 倬卮鬲 爻乇 賲蹖鈥屭柏ж臂� 賵 賲賳鬲馗乇 芦丌賳 丌丿賲 賲賳丕爻亘禄 賲蹖鈥屬呚з嗃屫� 爻乇 禺蹖丕亘丕賳貙 丿乇 丕蹖爻鬲诏丕賴 丕鬲賵亘賵爻貙 蹖丕 诏賵卮賴鈥屰� 讴丕賮賴鈥屫й�. 賲賳馗賵賲賴鈥屰� 乇賵丕亘胤 丕賳爻丕賳蹖 丕賵 賴賲丕賳鈥屬傌� 讴賴 卮禺氐蹖鈥屫池� 噩賴丕賳鈥屫促呝堎� 賴賲 賴爻鬲 賵 賲蹖鈥屫堌з嗃� 禺賵丿鬲貙 禺丕賳賵丕丿賴鈥屫ж� 丿賵爻鬲丕賳鬲 賵 丌賳 丌丿賲 賲賳丕爻亘 乇丕 丿乇 噩丕蹖鈥屫й� 丌賳 賯乇丕乇 丿賴蹖 賵 卮诏賮鬲鈥屫藏� 卮賵蹖 丕夭 丕蹖賳讴賴 趩胤賵乇 丕蹖賳 夭賳噩蹖乇賴 亘蹖鈥屬堎傎佡� 賵 亘丿賵賳 诏爻爻鬲 倬蹖卮 賲蹖鈥屫辟堌�.
诏蹖賳夭亘賵乇诏 趩賴賱 賵 趩賳丿 爻丕賱賴貙 丿乇 賮氐賱 丌禺乇 讴賲蹖 丕夭 賯丕賱亘 夭賳 賲乇丿丿 賵 禺丕胤乇賴鈥屫ㄘж� 賯亘賱 丿乇賲蹖鈥屫③屫� 賵 丕夭 賵丕賱丿 亘賵丿賳 丨乇賮 賲蹖鈥屫操嗀� 賵 讴賲蹖 鬲賵氐蹖賴鈥屬囏й� 讴丕乇亘乇丿蹖 趩丕卮賳蹖鈥屫ж� 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗀�. 鬲噩乇亘賴鈥屰� 夭蹖爻鬲賴鈥屰� 丕賵 亘賴鈥屫官嗁堌з� 賮乇夭賳丿 蹖讴 禺丕賳賵丕丿賴鈥屰� 乇賵卮賳鈥屬佢┴� 賵 丿丕賳卮诏丕賴蹖貙 卮丕毓乇 賵 賳賵蹖爻賳丿赖貙 賮毓丕賱 囟丿賮丕卮蹖爻鬲貙 賲丕丿乇 爻賴 賮乇夭賳丿 賵 禺乇丿賴鈥屫臂屫测€屬囏й� 丿蹖诏乇蹖 讴賴 禺賵丿卮 賴賲 蹖丕丿卮 賳蹖爻鬲.
(鬲乇噩賲賴 賲丨爻賳 丕亘乇丕賴蹖賲 鈥� 賳卮乇 賴乇賲爻貨 禺賵亘 丕賲丕 賳賴 亘丿賵賳 丕蹖乇丕丿)
September 28, 2016
I am in the minority when it comes to this book. And I have wracked my brain trying to understand why it is held in such high, high regard. There are a handful of short essays in this collection that I thought were excellent, but I found the majority of them almost interminable. The context here, and so many of the essays, is World War II, Italian fascism, the horrors of what unfolded as communities were ravaged. Her dismissive, shallow essays on England can be seen as cries for home, I understand. That still doesn't make them great art. She's at her best, when she writes about vocation, in this case writing. Her advice in the final essay that we can only be good parents if we have a passion in our own lives is excellent. But there was so much in here that I didn't like, stuff that did not resonate with me at all. When she writes about her longtime partner he comes across as an abusive dick, and yet it seems to me that she is paying homage to this behavior. This book was barely over 100 pages, and it took me 10 days to read. I do not mean this review to persuade anyone not to read the book. Finer minds than mine have found in this book wonderful writing and timeless, original thinking.
June 4, 2022
Las peque帽as virtudes es un libro editado en 1962, que re煤ne reflexiones y recuerdos de la autora escritos entre 1946 y 1981, publicados en su momento en medios de comunicaci贸n.
Algunos son m谩s breves, y emotivos; y otros, m谩s largos, en los que la autora describe sus relaciones, habla sobre Inglaterra (pa铆s en el que vivi贸 durante un tiempo), o reflexiona sobre sobre los cambios a lo largo de la vida o la educaci贸n de los hijos.
Algunos de los textos pueden estar basados realidades que han cambiado desde el momento de la escritura, pero todos siguen preservando una humilde lucidez en sus observaciones; y en algunas ocasiones, detr谩s de una reflexi贸n de apariencia anacr贸nica, aparece una inteligencia que vence al tiempo.
Si le sumamos la magn铆fica prosa de Ginzburg, todas las historias terminan dejando una sensaci贸n de haber asistidito a una tertulia grata e inteligente.
Algunos son m谩s breves, y emotivos; y otros, m谩s largos, en los que la autora describe sus relaciones, habla sobre Inglaterra (pa铆s en el que vivi贸 durante un tiempo), o reflexiona sobre sobre los cambios a lo largo de la vida o la educaci贸n de los hijos.
Algunos de los textos pueden estar basados realidades que han cambiado desde el momento de la escritura, pero todos siguen preservando una humilde lucidez en sus observaciones; y en algunas ocasiones, detr谩s de una reflexi贸n de apariencia anacr贸nica, aparece una inteligencia que vence al tiempo.
Si le sumamos la magn铆fica prosa de Ginzburg, todas las historias terminan dejando una sensaci贸n de haber asistidito a una tertulia grata e inteligente.
March 3, 2025
Relatos de tem谩tica diversa, de entre los que m谩s me han gustado: "脡l y yo" y "Las relaciones humanas", por el modo que tiene de analizar las distintas relaciones que vamos teniendo a lo largo de la vida: desde los padres, pasando por los amigos y llegando al amor.
Muy recomendable.
Si os qued谩is con ganas de leer m谩s, os dejo el enlace a mi rese帽a:
Muy recomendable.
Si os qued谩is con ganas de leer m谩s, os dejo el enlace a mi rese帽a:
July 6, 2024
毓卮賯 亘賴 夭賳丿诏蹖貙 亘丕毓孬 毓卮賯 亘賴 夭賳丿诏蹖 丕爻鬲.
賳丕鬲丕賱蹖丕 诏蹖賳夭亘賵乇诏 乇丕 禺蹖賱蹖 賳賲蹖鈥屫促嗀ж�. 卮丕蹖丿 賮賯胤 鬲毓丿丕丿蹖 亘乇卮 讴鬲丕亘蹖 丕夭 丕賵 禺賵丕賳丿賴 亘賵丿賲 丕賲丕 賳賲蹖丿丕賳爻鬲賲 賯賱賲卮 丕蹖賳賯丿乇 卮蹖賵丕 賵 乇賵丕賳 丕爻鬲 鬲丕 丕蹖賳讴賴 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 乇丕 禺賵丕賳丿賲.
賮囟蹖賱鬲鈥屬囏й� 賳丕趩蹖夭貙 賲噩賲賵毓賴鈥屫й� 讴賵趩讴 丕賲丕 賵爻蹖毓 丕夭 賲賴賲鈥屫臂屬� 噩爻鬲丕乇賴丕蹖 诏蹖賳夭亘賵乇诏 丕爻鬲. 噩爻鬲丕乇賴丕蹖蹖 丿乇賲賵乇丿 賲丨賱蹖 讴賴 亘賴 丌賳 鬲亘毓蹖丿 卮丿賴 亘賵丿 鬲丕 賮囟蹖賱鬲鈥屬囏� 賳丕趩蹖夭 讴賴 賳丕賲 丌禺乇蹖賳 噩爻鬲丕乇 丕爻鬲.
趩乇丕 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 乇丕 亘丕蹖丿 禺賵丕賳丿責
卮丕蹖丿 亘乇丕蹖 丕蹖賳讴賴 賳丕鬲丕賱蹖丕 乇丕 亘賴鬲乇 亘卮賳丕爻蹖丿. 卮丕蹖丿 賴賲 亘乇丕蹖 丕蹖賳讴賴 噩爻鬲丕乇 乇丕 卮乇賵毓 讴賳蹖丿 賵 蹖丕 卮丕蹖丿 亘乇丕蹖 禺賵丿 賮囟蹖賱鬲 賳丕趩蹖夭.
亘禺卮鈥屬囏й屰� 丕夭 讴鬲丕亘貙 鬲丕賲賱 亘乇丕賳诏蹖夭 亘賵丿. 丨鬲蹖 鬲賱賳诏乇 亘乇丕賳诏蹖夭.
" 賯亘賱丕 诏賮鬲賲貙 讴爻蹖 丿乇 賱丨馗賴鈥屫й� 讴賴 賲蹖鈥屬嗁堐屫池� 亘賴鈥屫焚堌� 賲毓噩夭賴鈥屫⒇池й屰� 賳丕趩丕乇 亘賴 賳丕丿蹖丿賴 丕賳诏丕卮鬲賳 卮乇丕蹖胤 丨丕讴賲 亘乇 夭賳丿诏蹖 禺賵丿 賲蹖鈥屫促堌�. 賯胤毓丕 趩賳蹖賳 丕爻鬲. 丕賲丕 卮丕丿 蹖丕 賳丕卮丕丿 亘賵丿賳貙 賴乇讴丿丕賲 賲丕 乇丕 亘賴 胤乇蹖賯蹖 亘賴 賳賵卮鬲賳 賵丕 賲蹖鈥屫ж必�."
卮丕蹖丿 亘賴 賴賲蹖賳 丿賱蹖賱 丕爻鬲 讴賴 诏丕賴蹖 賲蹖賳賵蹖爻蹖賲. 賴乇趩賳丿 讴賲 賵 讴賵鬲丕賴.
丕诏乇 乇賵夭蹖 亘趩賴鈥屫ж� 卮丿賲貙 蹖丕丿賲 亘丕卮丿 丨鬲賲丕 丌禺乇蹖賳 噩爻鬲丕乇 乇丕 亘禺賵丕賳賲. 诏乇趩賴 賴賲蹖賳 丕賱丕賳 賴賲 氐丕丨亘 賮乇夭賳丿蹖 賴爻鬲賲. 氐丕丨亘 讴賵丿讴 丿乇賵賳 禺賵丿賲.
亘賴 胤賵乇讴賱蹖貙 賲賳 噩匕亘 賯賱賲 賳丕鬲丕賱蹖丕 卮丿賲. 卮丕蹖丿 亘賴 夭賵丿蹖 丿乇 讴賱賲丕鬲卮 诏賲 卮賵賲 賵 丕夭 丕蹖鬲丕賱蹖丕 爻乇 丿乇丌賵乇賲.
賳丕鬲丕賱蹖丕 诏蹖賳夭亘賵乇诏 乇丕 禺蹖賱蹖 賳賲蹖鈥屫促嗀ж�. 卮丕蹖丿 賮賯胤 鬲毓丿丕丿蹖 亘乇卮 讴鬲丕亘蹖 丕夭 丕賵 禺賵丕賳丿賴 亘賵丿賲 丕賲丕 賳賲蹖丿丕賳爻鬲賲 賯賱賲卮 丕蹖賳賯丿乇 卮蹖賵丕 賵 乇賵丕賳 丕爻鬲 鬲丕 丕蹖賳讴賴 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 乇丕 禺賵丕賳丿賲.
賮囟蹖賱鬲鈥屬囏й� 賳丕趩蹖夭貙 賲噩賲賵毓賴鈥屫й� 讴賵趩讴 丕賲丕 賵爻蹖毓 丕夭 賲賴賲鈥屫臂屬� 噩爻鬲丕乇賴丕蹖 诏蹖賳夭亘賵乇诏 丕爻鬲. 噩爻鬲丕乇賴丕蹖蹖 丿乇賲賵乇丿 賲丨賱蹖 讴賴 亘賴 丌賳 鬲亘毓蹖丿 卮丿賴 亘賵丿 鬲丕 賮囟蹖賱鬲鈥屬囏� 賳丕趩蹖夭 讴賴 賳丕賲 丌禺乇蹖賳 噩爻鬲丕乇 丕爻鬲.
趩乇丕 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 乇丕 亘丕蹖丿 禺賵丕賳丿責
卮丕蹖丿 亘乇丕蹖 丕蹖賳讴賴 賳丕鬲丕賱蹖丕 乇丕 亘賴鬲乇 亘卮賳丕爻蹖丿. 卮丕蹖丿 賴賲 亘乇丕蹖 丕蹖賳讴賴 噩爻鬲丕乇 乇丕 卮乇賵毓 讴賳蹖丿 賵 蹖丕 卮丕蹖丿 亘乇丕蹖 禺賵丿 賮囟蹖賱鬲 賳丕趩蹖夭.
亘禺卮鈥屬囏й屰� 丕夭 讴鬲丕亘貙 鬲丕賲賱 亘乇丕賳诏蹖夭 亘賵丿. 丨鬲蹖 鬲賱賳诏乇 亘乇丕賳诏蹖夭.
" 賯亘賱丕 诏賮鬲賲貙 讴爻蹖 丿乇 賱丨馗賴鈥屫й� 讴賴 賲蹖鈥屬嗁堐屫池� 亘賴鈥屫焚堌� 賲毓噩夭賴鈥屫⒇池й屰� 賳丕趩丕乇 亘賴 賳丕丿蹖丿賴 丕賳诏丕卮鬲賳 卮乇丕蹖胤 丨丕讴賲 亘乇 夭賳丿诏蹖 禺賵丿 賲蹖鈥屫促堌�. 賯胤毓丕 趩賳蹖賳 丕爻鬲. 丕賲丕 卮丕丿 蹖丕 賳丕卮丕丿 亘賵丿賳貙 賴乇讴丿丕賲 賲丕 乇丕 亘賴 胤乇蹖賯蹖 亘賴 賳賵卮鬲賳 賵丕 賲蹖鈥屫ж必�."
卮丕蹖丿 亘賴 賴賲蹖賳 丿賱蹖賱 丕爻鬲 讴賴 诏丕賴蹖 賲蹖賳賵蹖爻蹖賲. 賴乇趩賳丿 讴賲 賵 讴賵鬲丕賴.
丕诏乇 乇賵夭蹖 亘趩賴鈥屫ж� 卮丿賲貙 蹖丕丿賲 亘丕卮丿 丨鬲賲丕 丌禺乇蹖賳 噩爻鬲丕乇 乇丕 亘禺賵丕賳賲. 诏乇趩賴 賴賲蹖賳 丕賱丕賳 賴賲 氐丕丨亘 賮乇夭賳丿蹖 賴爻鬲賲. 氐丕丨亘 讴賵丿讴 丿乇賵賳 禺賵丿賲.
亘賴 胤賵乇讴賱蹖貙 賲賳 噩匕亘 賯賱賲 賳丕鬲丕賱蹖丕 卮丿賲. 卮丕蹖丿 亘賴 夭賵丿蹖 丿乇 讴賱賲丕鬲卮 诏賲 卮賵賲 賵 丕夭 丕蹖鬲丕賱蹖丕 爻乇 丿乇丌賵乇賲.
July 6, 2018
丕丿亘蹖丕鬲 丕蹖鬲丕賱蹖丕 賵 丌賳 爻蹖賳賲丕蹖 丿乇禺卮丕賳賽 诏賵賳賴 诏賵賳 丕卮 賵 賱丕蹖賴 賴丕蹖蹖 讴賴 亘丕蹖丿 丕夭 賲蹖丕賳 卮丕賳 乇丿 亘卮賵蹖 賵 亘毓丿 賲丕賳丿诏丕乇 亘卮賵賳丿 亘丕 鬲賵- 賴賲賴 蹖 丕蹖賳賴丕 賱匕鬲 毓噩蹖亘蹖 丿丕乇丿. 丕賳诏丕乇 丕丿亘蹖丕鬲 賵 爻蹖賳賲丕 賵 賴賳乇 丕蹖鬲丕賱蹖丕 賴賲賴 蹖讴倬丕乇趩賴 鬲賵 乇丕 亘賴 蹖讴 賮乇丌蹖賳丿 賵丕乇丿 賲蹖 讴賳賳丿 亘蹖乇賵賳 丕夭 賴乇 爻亘讴蹖 讴賴 倬乇丿丕禺鬲賴 卮丿賴 亘丕卮賳丿. 爻亘讴 賲诏乇 賴賲丕賳 卮蹖賵賴 蹖 亘蹖丕賳 賳蹖爻鬲責 丨鬲丕 丌賳噩丕 讴賴 賮賯胤 賯氐丿卮 賮乇賲 賳賲丕蹖蹖 亘丕卮丿責
賵 丌蹖丕 賴賲賴 蹖 丕蹖賳賴丕 亘爻鬲賴 賳蹖爻鬲 亘賴 噩睾乇丕賮蹖丕 賵 賴賲丕賳 賮乇賲賽 賲乇丿賲 爻丕賱丕乇蹖責 蹖丕 亘賴 毓亘丕乇鬲蹖 丨讴賵賲鬲責
睾賳丕蹖 丕丿亘蹖 賵 賴賳乇蹖 蹖蹖 讴賴 丕夭 丕賲倬乇丕鬲賵乇匕蹖 乇賵賲 鬲丕 賮丕卮蹖爻賲 乇蹖卮賴 丿賵丕賳丿賴 丕爻鬲! 氐丨亘鬲 丕夭 賮囟蹖賱鬲 賴丕爻鬲. 丌賳趩賴 讴賴 亘夭乇诏 鬲乇蹖賳 賳賲丕蹖丕賳丿賴 賲蹖 卮賵丿 讴賴 趩賴 亘爻丕 亘蹖 丕乇夭卮 鬲乇蹖賳 亘賵丿賴 丕爻鬲
賮囟蹖賱鬲 賴丕蹖 賳丕趩蹖夭貙 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘賽 丕乇噩賲賳丿 賴乇 亘禺卮 丕賵 丨讴丕蹖鬲蹖 爻鬲 丕夭 賴賲蹖賳 鬲毓賲賯 丿乇 賮乇賲 賵 亘丕夭诏卮鬲 亘賴 乇蹖卮賴 賴丕. 丿乇 爻讴丕賳爻 亘賳丿蹖 賴丕蹖 賲丿丕賲賽 禺丕胤乇賴 賴丕
1397/04/15
賵 丌蹖丕 賴賲賴 蹖 丕蹖賳賴丕 亘爻鬲賴 賳蹖爻鬲 亘賴 噩睾乇丕賮蹖丕 賵 賴賲丕賳 賮乇賲賽 賲乇丿賲 爻丕賱丕乇蹖責 蹖丕 亘賴 毓亘丕乇鬲蹖 丨讴賵賲鬲責
睾賳丕蹖 丕丿亘蹖 賵 賴賳乇蹖 蹖蹖 讴賴 丕夭 丕賲倬乇丕鬲賵乇匕蹖 乇賵賲 鬲丕 賮丕卮蹖爻賲 乇蹖卮賴 丿賵丕賳丿賴 丕爻鬲! 氐丨亘鬲 丕夭 賮囟蹖賱鬲 賴丕爻鬲. 丌賳趩賴 讴賴 亘夭乇诏 鬲乇蹖賳 賳賲丕蹖丕賳丿賴 賲蹖 卮賵丿 讴賴 趩賴 亘爻丕 亘蹖 丕乇夭卮 鬲乇蹖賳 亘賵丿賴 丕爻鬲
賮囟蹖賱鬲 賴丕蹖 賳丕趩蹖夭貙 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘賽 丕乇噩賲賳丿 賴乇 亘禺卮 丕賵 丨讴丕蹖鬲蹖 爻鬲 丕夭 賴賲蹖賳 鬲毓賲賯 丿乇 賮乇賲 賵 亘丕夭诏卮鬲 亘賴 乇蹖卮賴 賴丕. 丿乇 爻讴丕賳爻 亘賳丿蹖 賴丕蹖 賲丿丕賲賽 禺丕胤乇賴 賴丕
1397/04/15
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