Family Lexicon (New York Review Books Classics)

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Family Lexicon (New York Review Books Classics)

A masterpiece of European literature that blends family memoir and fiction

An Italian family, sizable, with its routines and rituals, crazes, pet phrases, and stories, doubtful, comical, indispensable, comes to life in the pages of Natalia Ginzburgâ€™s Family Lexicon. Giuseppe Levi, the father, is a scientist, consumed by his work and a mania for hikingâ€”when he isnâ€™t provoked into angry remonstration by someone misspeaking or misbehaving or wearing the wrong thing. Giuseppe is Jewish, married to Lidia, a Catholic, though neither is religious; they live in the industrial city of Turin where, as the years pass, their children find ways of their own to medicine, marriage, literature, politics. It is all very ordinary, except that the background to the story is Mussoliniâ€™s Italy in its steady downward descent to race law and world war. The Levis are, among other things, unshakeable anti-fascists. That will complicate their lives.

Family Lexicon is about a family and languageâ€”and about storytelling not only as a form of survival but alsoÂ as an instrument of deception and domination. The book takes the shape of a novel, yet everything is true. â€œEvery time that I have found myself inventing something in accordance with my old habits as a novelist, I have felt impelled at once to destroy [it],â€ Ginzburg tells us at the start. â€œThe places, events, and people are all real.â€

Country	USA
Author	Natalia Ginzburg
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781590178393
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	NYRB Classics
Manufacturer	NYRB Classics
NumberOfPages	241
PublicationDate	2017-04-25
Publisher	NYRB Classics
ReleaseDate	2017-04-25
Studio	NYRB Classics

Family Lexicon (New York Review Books Classics)

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