In the Cuban-Italian novelist’s Her Side of the Story, she confronts the falsity of romantic love. In The Second Sex, her 1949 feminist polemic, Simone de Beauvoir declared romantic love, as we’d ...
When it was published in Italy in 1938, “There’s No Turning Back,” by Alba de Céspedes, became an instant bestseller and was translated into 24 languages. Not long after, it was banned by the fascist ...
Discover notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. On September 8, 1943, Italy surrendered to the Allies, and the Germans, who already effectively controlled the north of Italy, turned on their ...
Alba de Céspedes y Bertini (1911–1997) was a Cuban-Italian writer. She was the daughter of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada (a Cuban ambassador to Italy) and his Italian wife, Laura Bertini y ...
Italian distribution and production company Notorious Pictures is expanding into the TV series sphere by snapping up rights to buzzy literary property “Forbidden Notebook,” a 1952 novel by ...
Review: 'Forbidden Notebook' by Alba de Céspedes, translated from Italian by Ann Goldstein FICTION: Alba de Céspedes chronicles a 1950s Italian housewife's entry into disturbing self-awareness by way ...
Alba de Céspedes, trans. from the Italian by Ann Goldstein. Astra House, $26 (288p) ISBN 978-1-66260-139-2 Late Italo-Cuban author de Céspedes (Between Then and Now) spins a fearlessly probing and ...
Alba de Céspedes, trans. from the Italian by Ann Goldstein. Washington Square, $27.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-6680-8363-5 This deeply intelligent 1938 novel from de Céspedes (1911–1997), crisply translated ...
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