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the wrong door the complete plays of natalia ginzburg
p the wrong door is the first english language translation of the complete plays of italian writer natalia ginzburg 1916 1991 . bringing together the eleven plays ginzburg wrote between 1965 and the months before her death this volume directs attention to ginzburgs unique talent as a dramatist . p ginzburgs plays like her novels and short stories are incisive finely tuned studies of family drama of the breakdown of relations between the sexes and of the tribulations of italian domestic life . the plays showcase ginzburgs fearless social commentary her stark and darkly comic observations of italian life and her prescient analyses of the socio economic changes that have transformed modern italy . along the way ginzburg creates memorable female characters in a series of fascinating roles . in this fluent and faithful translation wendell ricketts highlights ginzburgs scalpel sharp dialogue and lays bare the existential absurdities that lie at the heart of her plays . p including an introduction by the translator and two essays by ginzburg on her approach to the theatre the wrong door adds a new dimension to the literary portrait of one of italys most significant modernist writers .