Free Day by Ins Cagnati

Free Day by Ins Cagnati

A haunting and powerful portrait of a young French girl, and her desire to escape the world in which she is born, without losing her identity

In the marshy countryside of southwestern France, fourteen-year-old Galla rides her battered bicycle twenty miles, twice a month, from the high school she attends on scholarship back to her family's rocky, barren farm. Galla's loving, overwhelmed mother would prefer she stay at home, where Galla can look after her neglected little sisters and defuse her father's brutal rages. What does this dutiful daughter owe her family, and what does she owe her own ambition? In In s Cagnati's haunting and visually powerful novel Free Day, winner of the 1973 Prix Roger Nimier, Galla makes an extra journey one frigid winter Saturday to surprise her mother. As she anticipates their reunion, she mentally retraces the crooked path of her family's past and the more recent map of her school life as a poor but proud student. Galla's dense interior monologue blends with the landscape around her, building a powerful portrait of a girl who yearns to liberate herself from the circumstances that confine her, without losing their ties to her heart.

Inü¾Ž†”¼s Cagnati (1937-2007) was born in Monclar, France, in the Aquitaine region of Lot-et-Garonne, and died in Orsay. The child of Italian immigrants, she became a French citizen but never considered herself French. With a bachelor's degree in modern literature and a certificate for secondary-school instruction, she worked as a professor of literature at the Lycü¾Ž–”¼e Carnot in Paris. Cagnati was the author of four prize-winning books: Le Jour de congü¾Ž–”¼ (Free Day, 1973); Gü¾Ž–”¼nie la folle (1976); Mosü¾Ž–”¼, ou Le Lü¾Ž–”¼zard qui pleurait (1979); and Les Pipistrelles (1989).

Liesl Schillinger is a literary critic, writer, and translator, and teaches journalism and criticism at the Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts of the New School for Social Research in New York City. Her articles, reviews, and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Foreign Policy, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The New Atlantic, The Washington Post, and other publications. She has translated works by Alexandre Dumas fils, Natasa Dragnić, Jean Echenoz, and others, and is the author of Wordbirds: An Irreverent Lexicon for the 21st Century. In 2017 she was named a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters of France.

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ISBN 13	9781681373584
ISBN 10	1681373580
Titel	Free Day
Autor	Inès Cagnati
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	The New York Review of Books, Inc
Erscheinungsjahr	2019-12-03
Seitenanzahl	214
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