The City and the House (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Natalia Ginzburg
- First Published: 1984
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: The 1970’s or 1980’s
- Setting: Rome and countryside near Perugia in Italy, and Princeton, New Jersey
- Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: 1970’s, Family or family life, United States or Americans, Love or romance, Murder or homicide, Friendship, 1980’s, Adultery, Letter writing, Death or dying, Italy or Italians, Houses, mansions, or manors, Rome, Cities or towns
- Locales: Rome, Italy, Perugia, Italy, Princeton, NJ
Characters Discussed
Giuseppe Guaraldi (jew-SEHP- peh gwah-RAHL-dee), a writer and scholar, approaching age fifty, who has just ended a long love affair with Lucrezia, a married woman. He sells his apartment against the advice of his friends, leaves his job, and moves to Princeton, New Jersey, to live with his older brother. He imagines an idyllic life with his brother that will provide him with the security he needs after the end of his affair. Instead, he finds that, shortly before his arrival in Princeton, his brother has married Anne Marie, a colleague from the scientific...
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