Title : Portraits of Women - Pietro Citati - book

Summary :

An outstanding portraitist, Pietro Citati always tunes his "inner metronome" to the rhythm of the artist or writer whose life and work he recounts. The intrepid acuity of his gaze, the finesse of his analysis, the vivacity of his narrative, the elegance of his line, and the charm of his expression characterize his Portraits of Women. It is in all the fullness of their presence that Pietro Citati brings to life before us Saint Teresa of Avila, Jane Austen, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Marina Tsvetaeva, Karen Blixen, Simone Weil, Flannery O'Connor, Cristina Campo, Anna Maria Ortese, Ingeborg Bachmann... In many of these women's lives, in the books written by these women, literature has perhaps reached its extreme tragic possibilities. Spiritual concentration, courage of intelligence, firmness of mind, despair, fire, fury, the dream of the pure soul culminate in these female figures who lead us from the Middle Ages to the end of the 20th century. One has the impression that the fate and anguish they had to bear was of considerable weight. But as one of them declared: "I am firmly convinced that life is beautiful, rich, and great; yes, I would be convinced of it even if I had to die of the plague in a dung pit."

• EAN : 9782070428212
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