In this biographical novel the formidable, irreverent humanity of a woman and artist emerges and moves us, while the writing tells us about the power of memory, about love and the resistance to all attempts at cancellation and oblivion.
Adelaida Gigli was an anti-conformist, brilliant and ironic artist. Her portrayal by Adrián N. Bravi is heartfelt and vivid, and makes compulsive reading. Alluring like Jeanne Moreau, spirited like Wisława Szymborska and a lover of cigarettes, like Ingeborg Bachmann, in the late 1940s Adelaida is in Buenos Aires, where she immerses herself in the city’s political and literary life. Immediately after the coup in 1976 and the devastating loss of her two children, desaparecidos, Adelaida is forced to leave Argentina and return to Italy, to her native Recanati, where she begins a new artistic and personal life. Adrián N. Bravi revisits with friendship and elegance the stages in the life of an extraordinary woman he had the opportunity to know and whose confidant he was, and, at the same time, he tells us about the dictatorship years, the political commitment of younger people, the cultural turmoil and the power of Argentinian literature.
“In recounting the life of an unusual woman, Bravi has also been able to narrate, to those who do not know or have forgotten them, the political and cultural vicissitudes of an entire country, its oscillation between attempts at democracy and extreme violence according to ‘a mechanism of replacing governments elected by popular vote through the intervention of the armed forces’, and, at the same time, the existence of an indomitable intellectual ferment, of a constant critical elaboration, of a tenacious refusal of resignation.”
Il manifesto
“Adelaida Gigli is a world that begins and ends in Recanati and that writer Adrián N. Bravi has recounted in a book that contains so many others, with men and women that are lost like libraries; ideas and struggles that infect, become diaries, overcome subtractions and disappearances, tragedies and dictatorships.” Il Mattino
“A wonderful book, let’s say it now. Bravi has written a novel, an essay on the history of the Argentine dictatorship, another on Argentine literature, a book that is also an interview and memoir. Above all, Bravi has written a story about escaping tyrants and pain and about how a friendship is born, is built and endures.” Gianni Montieri, Minima & Moralia
“Adelaida’s whole life is a charming, gentle and loving protest against the harshness of dictatorships, three of which she escapes from and triumphs over.” Il Mattino
Adrián N. Bravi, born in Buenos Aires in 1963, Adrian Brávi moved to Italy in the late 1980s and, after studying philosophy and working as a librarian, began to publish fiction in the late 1990s. He is the author of several novels, a children’s book, and numerous articles and stories. His writing has been translated into French, English, Arabic and Spanish.
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