Dead Rosetta Loy, the writer who told about love and war – time.news

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His latest book “Cesare” (Einaudi, 2018) focuses on the great literary critic Cesare Garboli. Her success for her already came with the first novel of 1974, “The bicycle” (Einaudi)

IS the writer Rosetta Loy passed away (Rome, May 15, 1931). She had established herself in the literary world since her first novel, The bike in 1974 (Einaudi) with which he won the Viareggio First Feature Award. The latest book of him, Cesare (again Einaudi) is from 2018 and focuses on the figure of the great literary critic Cesare Garboli, with whom he had a very deep and complex relationship. The year before she had been awarded the Campiello Award for her career.

His themes were love, war, death and he treated them through an essential, clean, direct writing. Rosetta Loy leaves her readers some important books, among which the historical novel is remembered The streets of Dust (Einaudi, 1987). At the center of the The word jew (Einaudi, 1997), Fregene Prize, there is the story of his family, bourgeois and Catholic, who, without being aware of the tragedy that was perpetuating, passively accepted the racial laws. In Broken hearts (Nottetempo, 2010), recounts the murders in Novi Ligure and Erba. With The years between dog and wolf (Chiarelettere, 2013), retraced the history of Italy from 1969 to 1994. In 2016 it comes out Perhaps (Einaudi), his autobiographical story.

October 2, 2022 (change October 2, 2022 | 11:29)

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