6/3/2023 0 Comments Frankie and zooey salinger![]() ![]() ![]() They are islands of misapprehension in a domestic archipelago. Ginzburg’s characters reveal themselves most fully in their unacknowledged weaknesses, the places where their ambition, yearning, disappointment, and pain all hide in plain sight. Out of these illusions, all manner of misunderstandings emerge, some comic (Ginzburg is a very funny writer), and others tragic. A wife may wish for a more loyal husband, or a father a more dynamic daughter, or a mother a smarter son, and in the strength of their desire, believe it is so. Fantasy is the prism through which we glimpse her character’s dissatisfactions with each other. “If my siblings and I were to find ourselves in a dark cave or among millions of people,” she wrote in Family Lexicon, her most celebrated novel, “just one of those phrases or words would immediately allow us to recognize each other.” Ginzburg’s intimate cosmologies are fraught with allusive significance. In the novels of Natalia Ginzburg, family has a private grammar. JArchive of Longing The Domestic Disappointments of Natalia Ginzburg By Dustin Illingworth. ![]()
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