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An astrological guide for broken hearts tells a humorous and sharp irony story about the ups and downs of a modern woman full of life, contradictions, and hope.
The Lying Life of Adults (2019), a stand-alone novel by Elena Ferrante, takes us to Naples in the 1990s through the eyes of fourteen-year-old Giovanna Trade, a bright, middle-class girl whose world falls apart with the discovery of her family's lies.
The novel depicts the tragic fate of Mariuta (Marije Zef) and her younger sister Rosuta. The work shocked contemporaries with its boldness in depicting taboo subjects, and is today considered a classic portrait of female suffering in rural Italy.
In Florence 1925–1926, in the poor Via del Corno, the residents live in love, poverty and fear. The arrival of fascism destroys the community: lovers fight, some die from violence, but popular solidarity survives.
In any case, I'm here, because I wrote poems, an absolutely useless product, but almost never harmful, and in that lies some of its nobility," said the Italian Nobel laureate Montale at the award ceremony.
Through these stories, Moravia explores themes of social inequality, the struggle for survival, and human frailty, portraying them with a mix of humor, irony, and realistic observation.