Natalia Ginzburg or the Power of Unknowing
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Natalia Ginzburg, Italian Literature, knowing, oppositions, negation, clarity, realityAbstract
Although Natalia Ginzburg spent all her life in devoted literary and scientific circles, she always wrote texts without the aid of any intellectual filters. Her need to underline her “ignorance” was a genuine leitmotif in her work, which manifested itself in the form of negations and oppositions. For her, the deep meaning of any discourse did not reside exclusively in what we know, but also in what we do not know. Unknowing thus becomes part of knowing, while revealing the inadequacy of writing to encapsulate reality as a whole.
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