Whether big ladies of letters as Rosetta Loy, or Antistar as Milena Agus, the novelists of the peninsula are the event. The Express has encountered at home. Rosetta Loy – The Roman Signora  pines of the Roman countryside, climbing a hill eroded by the ring roads and housing. Somewhat naively, we seek a baroque palace ocher decrepit. Complete failure: it is at the threshold of a house brick style 1960, among the barking of his dogs, that awaits the novelist Roads dust. .

Even if the grande dame of Italian literature sometimes seems entrenched behind a courtesy a little tired, as if nothing could filter emotions that are troubling. In a near-perfect French, it makes you the honors of his kingdom, where the furniture downstairs in the Scandinavian type, stacks of books and yellowed photographs evoke a dolce vita intellectual become exotic in the Italy of Berlusconi and Prodi. It is this emotional restraint, this discreet vibrato, which, under a little cold clarity of the sentence, gives full value to his superb autobiography, entitled The First Hand. The covered writer of literary prizes, the grandmother becomes filled to the distraught girl she was in the 1930s and 1940s, the newest family corseted upper class Roman.

History was about to throw its shadows on the solar still young. One of the first releases of the small Roman was to admire, one evening in 1938, the avenue leading to the Colosseum, illuminated in honor of Hitler during his official visit. Another indelible memory: this lunch in a fancy restaurant in Vicenza, where the announcement on the radio in the coming war Italy petrified his family and servers. has never ceased to meditate on the deportation of his Jewish neighbors building, in the complete indifference of the Vatican, a few hundred yards away.

She said pointing to his photo. He died at age 53. He smoked Gitanes blue. This is one of them who did love France.

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