Fabrizia Ramondino
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| Born | 31 August 1936 |
| Died | 23 June 2008 (aged 71) |
| Known for | Italian author of fiction |
| Movement | Social activist |
Fabrizia Ramondino (1936–2008) was an Italian author who has many works "which includes and crosses the boundaries between poetry, novels, plays, travelogues, memoirs, confession, self-reflection, anthropological, cultural and linguistic comment" according to Adalgisa Giorgio, who has conducted research of Ramondino's life and works.[1]
Ramondino's life
Fabrizia Ramondino was born in
In 1981, she published her first novel Althénopis. During the 1808s,[
Ramondino was a finalist for the
She died in Gaeta at the age of 71.[2]
Ramondino's writing
Ramondino is an author known to relate all of her writing to her experiences. Naples is the main culture that Ramondino absorbs into her writing. Not only does she have the setting of her novels and stories in Naples, but she "placed [herself] in the position of partial outsider(s) to the culture and languages".[5] By doing so, she sets her work apart and allows herself to observe the "mores of the middle and upper bourgeoisie, with the class consciousness of a materialist" [5] and making her "an exile in her own homeland".[6] This perspective that she has in her writing is demonstrated as she approaches the Neapolitan language and also as an outsider. Ramondino "only occasionally inserts words of Neapolitan origin" into her work.[4] She also often uses footnotes to help one understand these words. Ramondino wraps her audience in this sense of looking in from the outside of culture in her readings. She intertwines them flawlessly into the culture of the cities her stories are set in.[5]
Selected works
Her works include:[3]
- Torie di patio (1983)
- Star di casa (1991)
- In viaggio (1995)
- L’isola riflessa (1998)
References
Bibliography
- Giorgio, Adalgisa. "Fabrizia Ramondino." Home. Institute of Modern Languages Research, n.d. Web. 18 Oct. 2014.
- Marotti, Maria O. Italian Women Writers from the Renaissance to the Present: Revising the Canon. University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996. Print.
- Riva, Massimo. Italian Tales: An Anthology of Contemporary Italian Fiction. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004. Print.
Further reading
- Scarparo, Susanna, and Rita Wilson. Across Genres, Generations and Borders: Italian Women Writing Lives. Newark, [Del.: University of Delaware Press, 2004. Print.
External links
- Fabrizia Ramondino at IMDb
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