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The Art of Joy: A Novel by Goliarda Sapienza, Anne Milano Appel, Angelo Pellegrino
- The Art of Joy: A Novel
- Goliarda Sapienza, Anne Milano Appel, Angelo Pellegrino
- Page: 705
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- ISBN: 9780374708948
- Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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The tumultuous twentieth century, told through the life of a single extraordinary woman Rejected by a series of publishers, abandoned in a chest for twenty years, Goliarda Sapienza's masterpiece, The Art of Joy, survived a turbulent path to publication. It wasn't until 2005, when it was released in France, that this novel received the recognition it deserves. At last, Sapienza's remarkable book is available in English, in a brilliant translation by Anne Milano Appel and with an illuminating introduction by Angelo Pellegrino. The Art of Joy centers on Modesta, a Sicilian woman born on January 1, 1900, whose strength and character are an affront to conventional morality. Impoverished as a child, Modesta believes she is destined for a better life. She is able, through grace and intelligence, to secure marriage to an aristocrat—without compromising her own deeply felt values. Friend, mother, lover—Modesta revels in upsetting the rules of her fascist, patriarchal society. This is the history of the twentieth century, transfigured by the perspective of one extraordinary woman. Sapienza, an intriguing figure in her own right—her father homeschooled her so she wouldn't be exposed to fascist influences—was a respected actress and writer who drew on her own struggles to craft this powerful epic. A fictionalized memoir, a book of romance and adventure, a feminist text, a bildungsroman—this novel is ultimately undefinable but deeply necessary; its genius will leave readers breathless.
The Art of Joy: A Novel: Sapienza, Goliarda, Appel, Anne
The Art of Joy centers on Modesta, a Sicilian woman born on January 1, 1900, whose strength and character are an affront to conventional morality. Impoverished
The Art of Joy: A Novel by Goliarda Sapienza | eBook
The tumultuous twentieth century, told through the life of a single extraordinary woman. Rejected by a series of publishers, abandoned in a chest for twenty
The Art of Joy by Goliarda Sapienza
This epic Sicilian novel, which begins in the year 1900 and follows its main character, Modesta, through nearly the entire span of the 20th century, is at once
The Art of Joy
It details a woman's pursuit of cultural, financial and sexual independence in early-20th-century Sicily, during which she sleeps with both men and women.
The Art of Joy by Goliarda Sapienza
The Art of Joy centers on Modesta, a Sicilian woman born on January 1, 1900, whose strength and character are an affront to conventional morality.
Disobedience is a Virtue: On Goliarda Sapienza's “The Art
“The Art of Joy” is not an artful book or, rather, it is artful only in a paradoxical way: this is the art of the natural and the spontaneous.
THE ART OF JOY: A NOVEL By Goliarda Sapienza
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Bringing “The Art of Joy” to English Readers
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