#Oliva Denaro

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Oliva Denaro: Ambra Angiolini apre la stagione teatrale 2024/2025 di Alessandria.

Un racconto di emancipazione e coraggio femminile per inaugurare il Teatro Alessandrino.

Un racconto di emancipazione e coraggio femminile per inaugurare il Teatro Alessandrino. Un debutto di grande spessore Il sipario della stagione teatrale 2024/2025 di Alessandria si alza giovedì 19 dicembre 2024, alle ore 21, al Teatro Alessandrino, con la straordinaria interpretazione di Ambra Angiolini nello spettacolo “Oliva Denaro”, tratto dall’omonimo romanzo di Viola Ardone. La regia è…

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Oliva Denaro - Viola Ardone

Dopo aver letto il treno dei bambini, dopo essermi fatto letteralmente catturare dalla scrittura dell’autrice mi è sembrato naturale leggere un altro libro di Viola Ardone, e poi scoprire che c’è un collegamento con il treno dei bambini perché compare una certa Maddalena con la sua storia molto forte che darà un grande supporto ai protagonisti di ambedue i libri! Se con il treno dei bambini…

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Finally, he looks up and our eyes meet. "And do know what he said?"

I shake my head. I don't know.

"'I would throw myself at her feet, on the spot.' That's what he said."

The Unbreakable Heart of Oliva Denaro by Viola Ardone

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#Blogtour The Unbreakable Heart of Oliva Denaro by Viola Ardone

It’s a pleasure to take part in the Blogtour The Unbreakable Heart of Oliva Denaro by Viola Ardone, translated by Clarissa Botsford. About the Author Viola Ardone was born in Naples in 1974. A high school Latin and Italian teacher, she holds a degree in literature and worked in academic publishing. She is the author of two previous novels in Italian, La ricetta del cuore in subbuglio and Una…

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-Oliva Denaro, Viola Ardone

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«Perché per noi è difficile, Maddalena?- chiesi, tenendo gli occhi chiusi per negare alle lacrime la via d’uscita. - Perché abbiamo bisogno di battaglie, di petizioni, di manifestazioni? Di bruciare reggiseni, di mostrare mutande, di implorare di essere credute, di controllare la misura delle gonne, il colore del rossetto, la larghezza dei sorrisi, l’impellenza dei desideri? Che colpa ne ho io, se sono nata femmina?»

- Oliva Denaro, Viola Ardone

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Reading Around the World: Italy

Viola Ardone: Oliva Denaro (2021; The Unbreakable Heart of Oliva Denaro)

Original language: Italian

Translation read: Finnish translation Nimeni on Oliva Denaro (2023) by Laura Lahdensuu

Genre: Historical fiction

Summary: In a Sicilian small-town in the 1960s, a 16-year-old Oliva refuses the advances of a man, who consequently kidnaps and rapes her in order to force her to marry him out of shame (i.e. trying to bully her into a "rehabilitating marriage"). The novel is loosely based on the kidnapping and rape of Franca Viola.

Review: 4/5. Small towns and women-centric storylines with feminist themes? Say no more, I'm in! This was a powerful novel about girlhood and growing up as a woman, and of standing up against unjust traditions. The aftermath of the real-life Franca Viola's trial ruled that rapists were no longer able to avoid punishment through marriage to their victims, eventually leading to the law about "rehabilitating marriage" finally being repealed in 1981.

Stefano Benni: Baol: Una tranquilla notte di regime (1990; "Baol: A Quiet Night Under the Regime")

Original language: Italian

Translation read: Finnish translation Baol: eräänä rauhallisena yönä valtakunnassa (1998) by Laura Lahdensuu

Genre: Satirical dystopia

Summary: In 1991, the citizens of City T. live under a totalitarian regime in a society that is ruled by cruel hierarchs who monitor their subjects and where reality is being shaped by government officials in secret underground studios. In this brutal world, the last baol wizard is trying to understand a secret about his life, and in the process gets drawn into a plot to save the reputation of a past-his-prime comedian.

Review: 3/5. Funny, exciting, weird. A fabulous satire of the modern world that also slightly scares me with its focus on control through distorted media presentations of reality. This would make an absolutely thrilling movie! Minus points for some casual sexism.

Umberto Eco: Il fascismo eterno (1995; Ur-Fascism)

Original language: Italian

Translation read: English translation Ur-Fascism (1995)

Genre: Essay

Summary: A short and intelligent essay on the fascist movement and ideology, written by a man who grew up in Italy under Mussolini's fascist rule. The essay gives a definition of fascism and lists its fourteen typical features.

Review: 3/5. A very important and necessary read now as neo-fascist movements and parties are on the rise again. Unfortunately, there's a lot I recognise from modern politics.

Lorenza Mazzetti: Il cielo cade (1961; The Sky Is Falling)

Original language: Italian

Translation read: Finnish translation Taivas sortuu (1965) by Pirkko Wass-Colussi

Genre: Autobiographical psychological fiction

Summary: 10-year-old Penny has been orphaned together with her little sister Baby. They now live with their rich, Jewish uncle and his family in a large manor in the Italian countryside. It is 1943, and there is a war raging somewhere in the distance, but the children play and go to school in the village, learning to sing fascist songs and write essays about Il Duce. Then, the war creeps closer and eventually brings along chaos, blood, and destruction.

Review: 3/5. I saw a reviewer describe this novel as "perversely naive", and I couldn't put it any better. The novel cleverly describes the world of children and the world as experienced by children, particularly war as seen through the eyes of a child. Penny idolises Mussolini and is proudly a little fascist, having very little understanding of what is actually going on in the world of adults, until it all tragically blows up in her face. The events portrayed in the novel parallel those that happened to the author's real-life uncle, the cousin of Albert Einstein. This novel seems to have some sequels, so I'm planning to pick those up in the future.

Goliarda Sapienza: L'arte della gioia (1976/1994/1998; The Art of Joy)

Original language: Italian

Translation read: Finnish translation Elämän ilo (2014) by Laura Lahdensuu

Genre: Historical fiction

Summary: Written between 1967-1976, this novel was published in full only in 1998, after the author's death, because the novel was initially rejected due to its length and its portrayal of a woman unrestrained by conventional morality and traditional feminine roles. The novel follows a woman, Modesta, who is born on 1 January 1900, through her life in twentieth century Sicily as she pursues cultural, financial and sexual independence.

Review: 3/5. This door-stopper of a novel was a gripping, thought-provoking, sightly disturbing reading experience. With around 700 pages, this novel of growth and development packs in free-love and queerness, social climbing, strong-willed women, murder, and (sort-of) incestual relationships. At the centre is a woman's pursuit of independence. I was left wanting a bit more of the political and historical stuff regarding Mussolini, fascism, socialism, and the world wars, since the novel was quite indrawn. As a sidenote: I heard that there's an Italian TV adaptation coming out this year, which I'm very much looking forward to!

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«Ogni cosa viene per chi sa aspettare»

(Viola Ardone, Oliva Denaro)

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Applausi a Genova per Ambra Angiolini in 'Oliva Denaro'

Tutti in piedi, ieri sera, al Teatro Modena di Genova a fine spettacolo ad applaudire Ambra Angiolini, il volto coperto dalle mani a nascondere un pianto liberatorio assolutamente comprensibile dopo un monologo così drammatico e “sentito”. Uno spettacolo da non perdere “Oliva Denaro”, tratto dal romanzo di Viola Ardone, proposto con la drammaturgia di Giorgio Gallione in collaborazione con la…

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the brain works in mysterious ways

Tonight in Italian class one woman was telling us about a book she was reading with her book club where they read books specifically by Italian authors or that take place in Italy. She just finished reading The Unbreakable Heart of Oliva Denaro, written by Viola Ardone about how men who used to rape women were able to avoid punishment if they married those women.

It was a very intense subject matter but I couldn't help interject and derail the conversation by noting how interesting it was that the letters in the author's first and last name were rearranged to spell the name of the title character.

For as little as this class knows about me, especially as we've never met in person and never have an opportunity for chit chat before or after class since it's all online (and not really even during class since there opportunities for speaking are so limited), I am sure they now really don't know what to think.

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Viola Ardone, Grande meraviglia, Einaudi, 2023

scheda dell’editore: Grande meraviglia «L’amore è incomprensibile, una forma di pazzia». Nel candore dello sguardo di Elba il manicomio diventa un luogo buffo e terribile, come la vita, che Viola Ardone sa narrare nella sua ferocia e bellezza.Dopo il successo internazionale de Il treno dei bambini e di Oliva Denaro, Grande meraviglia completa un’ideale trilogia del Novecento. In questo…

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I miei Libri del 2021

1 - David Quammen, Spillover, Einaudi

2 - Roberto Calasso, Come ordinare una biblioteca, Adelphi

3 - William Godwin, St. Leon. L’alchimista, Edizioni Haiku

4 - Winfried Georg Sebald, Austerlitz, Adelphi

5 - Alessandro Barbero, Dante, Laterza

6 - Douglas Stuart, Storia di Shuggie Bain, Mondadori

7 - Arundhati Roy, Il Dio delle piccole cose, Guanda

8 - Fernanda Alfieri, Veronica e Il Diavolo. Storia di Un esorcismo a Roma, Einaudi

9 - Aldo Cazzullo, A Riveder Le Stelle. Dante, il poeta che inventò l’Italia, Mondadori

10 - Carlo Greppi, Si stava meglio quando si stava peggio. 20 luoghi comuni da sfatare, Chialettere

11 - Hervé Le Tellier, L’anomalia, La Nave di Teseo

12 - Martin Latham, I racconti del Libraio, Rizzoli

13 - Simon Winchester, I Perfezionisti. Come la storia della precisione ha creato il mondo moderno, Hoepli

14 - Emmanuel Carrere, L’avversario, Adelphi

15 - Anthony Trollope, I Diamanti Eustace, Sellerio

16 - Stefania Auci, I Leoni di Sicilia, Nord

17 - Stefania Auci, L’inverno dei Leoni, Nord

18 - Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde, Un popolo di roccia e vento, Feltrinelli

19 - Abir Mukherjee, Un male necessario, Feltrinelli

20 - Irene Vallejo, Papyrus. L’infinito in un giunco, Bompiani

21 - Mary S. Lovell, Cote D’Azur 1920-1960. Gli anni d’oro della riviera francese, Neri Pozza

22 - Viola Ardone, Oliva Denaro, Einaudi

23 - Ruggero Cappuccio, Capolavoro d’Amore, Feltrinelli

24 - Youssef Ziedan, Nel Castello di Fardaqan, Neri Pozza

Il numero di libri rispetto al 2021 è lo stesso 24, ma Ho letto meno pagine 8664, lontano dal mio obiettivo delle 10 mila. Sono però sempre più soddisfatto delle mie scelte, le mie fonti di suggerimento si confermano ottime e sono felice che quest’anno, dopo molto tempo, ho letto nuovi autori italiani.

Il libro è una delle possibilità di felicità che abbiamo noi uomini 

Jorge Luis Borges

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"La femmina è una brocca:chi la rompe se la piglia,cosí dice mia madre."

(Viola Ardone

dal romanzo "Oliva Denaro")

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"Franca Viola, la prima "svergognata" che in Sicilia rifiutò il matrimonio riparatore e fece condannare il suo violentatore(1965)."

(Da @FDrigani on Twitter)

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