MAGDA SZABO' L'ultimo incontro - prima della pausa estiva - ha visto assoluta protagonista la brava scrittrice Ungherese Magda Szabò con due fra i suoi più beautiful and now deservedly famous novels.
"The Ballad of Iza" - publisher Einaudi
When her husband dies Vince, a judge during the years of Hungarian fascism had suffered serious injuries, the old lady is Szocs finds himself completely alone in the modest family home in the Hungarian countryside. It is then that the daughter Iza, a successful doctor who lives alone in the rigor of Budapest, he decided to bring her mother to live with it. But in the new house, a perfect and comfortable as it wants to place Iza, Mrs. Szocs is not at all comfortable, everything is too cold and lifeless, just like Iza. And so, little by little, fragile woman in a closed impenetrable silence, fading inexorably until the day he decides to return to his village to make an unexpected gesture, and liberating.
"Port" - publisher Einaudi
Two women separated, two different lives that collide. Magda Szabó describes the strange relationship for twenty years had elapsed between her and her maid. A rough woman, ageless, with its principles and bizarre, reserved, and the secrets jealously hidden behind the "door" closed forever. If, between the husband and the woman Magda There is sympathy immediately, otherwise the relationship between the two women is unpredictable, made up of quarrels, reconciliations, not said. Gradually their relationship is stretched, the narrator Emerencia to vote, their bond becomes exclusive, demanding ...
The drafting of the two works came after many years: first in 1963 and the second in 1987. The reader can not escape attention that MS has evolved and refined writing is that the definition of the characters, and indeed that Emerencia his mistress, writer (hint autobiographical) are at the absolute center of the story, while in the first Iza and her mom stand out, yes, but it is more collective, there are other figures and other stories that could have been developed in part to be able to give the plot to other documents.
The two novels have a common denominator represented by the tragic relationship that turns into a conflict between two women: Iza and her mom in the first and Emerencia and his mistress, in the second. In both there is a strong character (and Emerencia Iza) that rises over the other woman on the other hand more fragile character (respectively the writer = housewife and mother of Iza). The fact remains that there are feelings of love and / or close friends.
Iza has been likened to a soldier who fought / a as a child / in order to defend herself and her family from attacks in the world. Everything has achieved is the result of his stubbornness, not least the beautiful and prestigious achievement of the spa built in the hometown of Antal, her husband. E 'in the relationship with his loved ones but on the contrary fail. Antal leaves her and her mother, once a widow will be deeply disappointed and astonished at the pragmatism with which Iza has shaped a new life in Buda, which also wants to comply with his elderly mother, uprooted from a quiet provincial life.
In "The door there is a more mature MS and the figures of the writer and Emerencia are improved and if the epilogue in the first novel has an aura of fatality in the accident mortal stumbles in which the mother of Iza, but in this there is the certainty that the old home, sentitasi betrayed by the person in whom he had found a port of refuge after the storms of its troubled existence, leaves voluntarily to die. Magda was to defend from foreign eyes as the door had for years taken away from foreign eyes the secret world of Emerencia? at the cost of giving up the formal consecration ceremony that proclaimed the writer to fame?
With this rich material, the discussion was lively even been reduced to the ranks due to the first outward toward the sea and mountains. As is customary each formed two fronts for or against women defined strong of each novel, considered the primary cause of the bitter end of both stories.
Maurensig
"variant LUNEBURG"
publisher Adelphi
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to edited by Lucia and Alberto
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