The Washington Post, December 31st, 1989
NATALIA GINZBURG writes "through clenched teeth, as it were, giving away as little as possible," an exasperated American reviewer once commented. It's easy to understand how the Italian writer's work can have that effect. No matter what the genre-fiction, essays, history, autobiography-her style is spare and lean. Her images are so few that, when they appear, they blaze like shooting stars on a summer night. Yet Ginzburg's intent is certainly not "to give away as little as possible." Her aim is concreteness, and above all, truth and integrity. She succeeds admirably. Thanks to Arcade Publishin...
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