No has de preguntar-me mai

The loneliness of childhood and the stupor of old age, seen movies and books read, work, lyrical music, politics, believing or not believing in God: the short essays collected in this volume are similar in the pages of that diary that Natalia Ginzburg claimed she had never been able to write. They are certainly close texts, by thematic affinity and wisdom in narration, in Family Lexicon, and, as in any work by Natalia Ginzburg, they are inseparable from the vocation of the narration of the bosom. Coincidentally, in their placid daily disorder, these stories show issues that belong to everyone. Singular self-portrait of a woman, You Don't Have to Ask Me, it never becomes a family experience and an object destined to keep us company day after day.