Sibilla Aleramo

Tio Okuvliga lågor är en antologi av italiensk poesi. Tio kvinnor som har präglat 1900-talets italiensk lyrik presenteras i denna bok, många av dem för första gången i svensk översättning.

Sibilla är sexton år när hon gifter sig med en tio år äldre man. Det är 1890-tal på den italienska landsbygden. Mannen visar sig vara både svag och tyrannisk, Sibillas tröst i äktenskapet blir sonen hon föder. Men mannens brutalitet blir alltmer outhärdlig. Sonen är den enda länken mellan maken och Sibilla, men också den boja som hindrar henne från att bryta upp. Sibilla är en främmande fågel i den inskränkta miljön hon lever i. Hon har intellektuella intressen, medverkar i feministiska tidskrifter och deltar i den begynnande kvinnokampen. Hon inser att hon står inför ett fruktansvärt val: ge upp hoppet om ett självständigt liv eller lämna sin man - och därmed också sitt älskade barn. En kvinnas liv är en banbrytande och självbiografisk roman som skildrar en kvinnas kamp för självständighet och identitet i ett patriarkalt samhälle. Romanen utkom första gången 1906 i Italien. Den nådde stor framgång och har haft stor betydelse både i och utanför Italien. SIBILLA ALERAMO (pseudonym för Rina Faccio) föddes i Piemonte 1876 och dog 1960 i Rom. Hon var verksam som romanförfattare, poet, essäist och översättare, men det är främst hennes debutroman En kvinnas liv (Una donna) som gett henne en plats i litteraturhistorien.

'A groundbreaking, earthquaking vision, a story and a manifesto, and a literary performance so energetic it almost demands to be read aloud' Guardian 'To love, to sacrifice oneself, and to submit! Was this what all women were destined for?'When her carefree, aspirational childhood in a seaside town is brought brutally to an end, the nameless narrator of Sibilla Aleramo's blazing autobiographical novel discovers the shocking reality of life for a woman in Italy at the dawn of the twentieth century. As she begins to recognize the similarities between her own predicament and the plight of her mother and the women around her, she becomes convinced that she must escape her fate. Unashamed and remarkably ahead of its time, A Woman is a landmark in European feminist writing.'Aleramo was ahead of her time' Times Literary Supplement

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Excerpt from Trasfigurazione: Novella Perch noi, io e lui, soffriamo, ed cro prima di tutto che bisogna tu sappia, e bisogna che lo sappia da me, perch egli non te lo pu dire. A me, si, pu dire il suo dolore. Con te non osa. Non pu sopportare che tu pianga, gli fa troppo male. E soffre in silenzio e ti inganna, pur che tu non pianga. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

For a book that sent shock waves through the European literary establishment and, since its original publication in 1906 has gone through seven editions along with highly cclaimed translations into all th principal languages of Europe, A Woman (Una Donna) by Sibilla Aleramo (1876-1960) has remained curiously obscure in America. Aleramo's lightly fictionalized memoir presented a kaleidoscopic series of Italian images-the frenetic industrialism of the North, the miserable squalor of the country's backward areas to the South, fin de si cle Italian politics and literary life-all set in the framework of a drama admiringly characterized by Luigi Pirandellow as "grim and powerful." For some other Italians, A woman touched ar aw nerve, and many critics reacted to Aleramo with extreme hostility. However, whether one liked Aleramo's novel or not, the book was an iceberg in the mainstream of Italian literary life, impossible to get around without careful inspection. --From the introduction