Natalia 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.
The play is the story of a woman who speaks of herself in a monologue, with silly rhetoric, and emphasizes the disbelief and contradiction that have shaped her family life. In a telephone conversation with his mother, he begins to talk about his inner sorrows, and reveals his inner self. Published by Milano, Garzanti (1972).