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The Wrong Door: The Complete Plays of Natalia Ginzburg (Toronto Italian Studies) Hardcover – June 30, 2008

by Wendell Ricketts (Author)
4.1 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
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The Wrong Door is the first English-language translation of the complete plays of Italian writer Natalia Ginzburg (1916-1991). Bringing together the eleven plays Ginzburg wrote between 1965 and the months before her death, this volume directs attention to Ginzburg's unique talent as a dramatist.



Ginzburg's plays, like her novels and short stories, are incisive, finely tuned studies of family drama, of the breakdown of relations between the sexes, and of the tribulations of Italian domestic life. The plays showcase Ginzburg's fearless social commentary, her stark and darkly comic observations of Italian life, and her prescient analyses of the socio-economic changes that have transformed modern Italy. Along the way, Ginzburg creates memorable female characters in a series of fascinating roles. In this fluent and faithful translation, Wendell Ricketts highlights Ginzburg's scalpel-sharp dialogue and lays bare the existential absurdities that lie at the heart of her plays.



Including an introduction by the translator and two essays by Ginzburg on her approach to the theatre, The Wrong Door adds a new dimension to the literary portrait of one of Italy's most significant modernist writers.

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  1. Print length
    320 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    University of Toronto Press
  4. Publication date
    June 30, 2008
  5. Dimensions
    6.2 x 1.09 x 9.25 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0802098487
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0802098481
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'This is an impressive effort. Wendell Ricketts's translations are thoroughly enjoyable to read and true to the style and spirit of Natalia Ginzburg.'-Jen Wienstein, Department of Italian, McGill University

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Wendell Ricketts is a writer and translator living in Italy. He holds an MA in English and creative writing from the University of New Mexico.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Toronto Press
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 30, 2008
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0802098487
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0802098481
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.5 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.2 x 1.09 x 9.25 inches
  • Best Sellers Rank: #6,849 in European Dramas & Plays
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.1 out of 5 stars 11 ratings

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    Natalia Ginzburg was born in Palermo, Italy in 1916. She 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. Modest and intensely reserved, Ginzburg never shied away from the traumas of history, whether writing about the Turin of her childhood, the Abruzzi countryside, or contemporary Rome—all the while approaching those traumas only indirectly, through the mundane details and catastrophes of personal life. Most of her works were also translated into English and published in the United Kingdom and United States. She wrote acclaimed translations of both Proust and Flaubert into Italian. She died in Rome in 1991.

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    I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It is a mystery that moves along slowly, peeling back different layers of the story and the characters as the book progresses, I found this captivating.
    Claire lives at home with her mother Peg and sister Marla, her mother and sister have a unique relationship and we discover this as the book becomes more involved. Claire feels left out a lot of the time and this upsets her. She develops a friendship with Mr Sanjay, her elderly next door neighbour. My Sanjay is a very quiet and thoughtful man, incredibly wise and he develops a fondness for Claire. He takes her under his wing and spends many hours with her talking about life. When Mr Sanjay dies Claire is devastated and attends his funeral in a bright red dress that she knew Mr Sanjay would appreciate as he loved colour. Mistakenly she picks the wrong door and ends up at the funeral of Paul Davill who recently died very young from pneumonia. Claire's presence at this funeral takes everyone's attention, especially Gweenie, Paul's widow.
    Both Claire and Gweenie have more in common than they know and eventually will be brought further together. This is really a very well written mystery and I would highly recommend it.
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    This book was captivating in that you never knew really what to expect. I really enjoyed it, the only draw back was that you had to really listen carefully because the main two characters changed from one to another immediately in the story.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Worth having for Ginzburg lovers
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 7, 2014
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    I admire these astonishing frank and inventive evocation of the Italian every-day scene. I read plays I cannot see, and I fortunately have the imagination to see how they perform. Start with Intervista, avaialbe as a separate title, and then buy the Itanian originals. With these excellent translations and the Itanian originals you will find your way into the literary language. Naomi Ginziburg's language is very simple. Her complete Italian plays are in a separate volume.
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