Giulia Villoresi
Giulia Villoresi (born 1984 in Rome) is an Italian writer best known for her book La Panzanella (Feltrinelli, 2009). She has a degree in Modern History and is currently working as a researcher for the university, where she deals with religious history and Church institutions. She lives in Rome.[citation needed]
La Panzanella
"La Panzanella" (2009),[1][2] the first book by Giulia Villoresi, tells the story of Carlotta, an ugly duckling teenager. Among episodes, memories, and thoughts, the writer talks about the difficult growth and the constant search for love and beauty.[3] Carlotta Cordelli, named "Panzanella" or "Gnoccolona" because of her extra pounds, is a Roman girl of Neapolitan descent. Beautiful daughter of a fascinating mother and granddaughter of charming grandparents, she sees herself as ugly, fat, and clumsy and she feels excluded from the universe of her peers for her diversity: it is not only the physical that makes her different, but also the uninterrupted flow of thoughts and reflections, between dream and philosophy, accompanying the course of her days. The novel, as a sort of diary, recounts the life of Carlotta: the wickedness of the nuns of the elementary school with the first sufferings and first rejects, the years of the middle school and the transformation of the body, the bitter discovery of sexuality, the desire to be different and anarchic, cigarettes smoked in secret, the Saturday night life, the holidays and the trip to Amsterdam, the one to Athens, the experience of death and torture, adventures with older boys, the attempts at losing weight, the Light Night in Rome, etc. Then she will meet true love, but it will not cure all the thoughts of the girl and her sense of inadequacy to the world. This love will be another piece of life that could help her to grow up.
"“Volevo essere adeguata ma non possedevo il segreto. La bellezza e l’amore erano le due cose a cui ancora pensavo di più”. ("I wanted to be appropriate, but I did not possess the secret. Beauty and love were the two things that I thought of even more.")
Carlotta is the emblem of a lazy, lonely, and depressed generation, looking for something to believe in which prevents her from recognizing the value of the present. The author was able to tell, with witty humor and an immediate style typical of the thought, a story of hardship and passage from adolescence to adulthood. What most strikes the reader, however, is not so much the plot, but the depth and the appeal of philosophical observations that punctuate the novel.
References
- ↑ "ilrecensore.com". Retrieved May 23, 2012.
- ↑ "feltrinellieditore.it". Retrieved May 23, 2012.
- ↑ "lafeltrinelli.it". Retrieved May 23, 2012.
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