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L’ultima estate
“The Last Summer” (title translated by AI)
Cesarina Vighy (born 1936)
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Seriously ill, a woman she calls Zeta looks back with irony on a stubbornly irregular life of seventy years: her birth out of wedlock as 'the most beloved child in the world', a childhood under the bombs, splendid and petty Venice, her first romantic disaster, then coarse, vital Rome, psychoanalysis, feminism and the course of her illness. Throughout she defends her own individuality against the tribes and clinics she refused to belong to, and her family is never a refuge. Somewhere between novel, diary and autobiography, it is a story of life and death told without self-pity.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 190 pages in the original
- Genres
- Autofiction (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Italy
- First published
- 2009 by Fazi
- Author's age
- 73 when first published
- ISBN
9788864110127 (original)
- More
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