I dialoghi, senza alcuno spazio lasciato alla descrizione, riportano bene l'anima e la personalità della Deledda: donna decisa, testarda, moderna. Verrebbe da dire, una vera donna sarda. Fortissima.
Da contrappunto, la madre, presenza costante della sua vita anche da morta o da lontano, una figura da cui Grazia cerca costantemente di allontanarsi ma che sempre la riporta vicino. Più simili di quanto lei probabilmente mai vorrebbe e che la riporta costantemente alle battaglie di quando era ragazzina, di quando era il "mostro", canzonata e guardata con occhio storto perchè intelligente, perchè amante della lettura, perchè toglieva tempo all'essere femmina.
E adesso, donna adulta, scrittrice premiata, diventata di più di coloro che la schernivano, ancora non convinta di valerlo, dubbiosa del suo talento, sempre concreta, inchiodata a terra.
Un libro bellissimo, che riporta a noi la personalità di una donna unica.
Marcello Fois
Quasi Grazia
Einaudi
Euro 13
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Theatrical Piece dedicated to the immortal Nobel Prize Grazia Deledda. Three different moments of her life, turning points in her existence: the moment when, newlywed with Palmiro Madesani and not even thirty, she abandons Nuoro forever to move to Rome; in Stockholm, for the ceremony for the Nobel Prize; back to Rome, in a medical study, in the face of a diagnosis that leaves little to no escape.
The dialogues, without any room left to the description, report well the soul and personality of Deledda: a decisive, stubborn, modern woman. I would say, a real Sardinian woman. Very strong.
As a counterpoint, the mother, a constant presence in her life, whether dead or distant, a figure from which Grazia constantly tries to get away, but always brings her close. More look like she probably would ever want, and she's always back to the battles of when she was a little girl, when she was the "monster," mocked and looked at with a crooked eye because she was smart, because she was a lover of reading, because she took time from the duty of being female.
And now, an adult woman, an award-winning writer, became more than those who hated her, still not convinced of her worthiness, doubtful of her talent, always concrete, nailed to the ground.
A beautiful book that brings to us the personality of a unique woman.
Marcello Fois
Almost Grazia
