All Our Yesterdays (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Natalia Ginzburg
- First Published: 1952
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: The late 1930’s through the end of World War II
- Setting: Italy
- Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: Children, Family or family life, Politics, Suicide, 1940’s, World War II, 1930’s, Italy or Italians
- Locales: Italy
Characters Discussed
Anna, a plump, pale girl of fourteen, the younger girl in her family. On the day her father dies, she meets Giuma, the boy across the street. Although she ostensibly prefers playing with her girlfriends, she is drawn to this social superior and begins to play with him, or rather becomes the object of his imaginative play, every day. He talks to her, tells her endless fascinating stories, and even ties her to a tree. In later years, she enjoys hearing him recite poems by Eugenio Montale and eating ice cream with him at the Paris café. They imagine...
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