Vida imaginaria

Everything that Natalia Ginzburg evokes and describes happens to us as if for the first time, but it lasts forever. In Imaginary Life, perhaps her least known work, but at the same time her most versatile and combative, published in 1974 and unpublished in Spanish, the author addresses, among other issues, the condition of women and feminism, childhood and uncertainties. of adulthood or the weakness of our democracies. She also portrays some writers who are very dear to her, such as Italo Calvino, Elsa Morante or Cesare Pavese, and tells us about films and directors (Fellini, Bergman) whose art she was able to recognize from the beginning. With his discreet forcefulness and his unique voice, Ginzburg participates, through each of these thirty texts, in today's life, of a today that dates back half a century but that the reader naturally transfers to the here and now and to the future. the aesthetic, moral and political dilemmas we continue to face.