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Shame Shadows My Name

by Michela Marzano , Gila Walker
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780645920949
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Gazebo Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Gazebo Books
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 398
  • Original Price: GBP 17.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 386 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Memoirs

Shame Shadows My Name is the searing memoir of Michela Marzano - moral philosopher, columnist for La Repubblica and La Stampa, and former member of the Italian Parliament - translated into English for the first time by Gila Walker. Originally published in Italian as Stirpe e vergogna (winner of the Premio Mondello 2022) and in French as Mon nom est sans m�moire, this is an act of courageous personal and historical excavation.

The discovery that her father's birth certificate lists "Ferruccio Michele Arturo Vittorio Benito" among his given names sends Marzano into the family archive. What she finds dismantles the story she has always told herself: her grandfather Arturo, long described as a royalist patriot, was in fact one of Mussolini's earliest followers, a fascist of the first hour whose political loyalties were subsequently erased from family memory.

Weaving together genealogical research, historical documents, personal letters, and psychoanalytic reflection, Marzano confronts not only her grandfather's complicity but her own family's silence - and Italy's enduring culture of forgetting. Intimate and unflinching, Shame Shadows My Name is both a daughter's reckoning with a father who cannot speak of the past, and a philosopher's argument that memory is the only antidote to inherited shame.

Marzano, Michela: - Michela Marzano was born in Rome in 1970. She studied at the Normale Superiore in Pisa and since 1998 has been living in Paris, France, where she teaches moral philosophy at the Université Paris Descartes.She writes for La Repubblica and La Stampa.She is the author of a number of fiction and non-fiction books in French and Italian, which have been translated into many languages. L'amore è tutto: è tutto ciò che so dell'amore (UTET) won the Premio Bancarella 2014.Her memoir Stirpe e vergogna (Rizzoli), won the Premio Mondello in 2022 and will be published in English in 2024 by Gazebo Books as Shame Shadows My Name.

Walker, Gila: - Gila Walker is the translator of more than a hundred books and articles from French, including essays by Jacques Derrida, Tzvetan Todorov, Maurice Maeterlinck, Michel Serres and Georges Didi-Huberman, and an award-winning novel by Léonora Miano, Season of the Shadow. Among her published translations at Gazebo Books are Shades of Black by Nathalie Etoké, Blind Spot by Myriam Tadessé and the forthcoming Around the World with Writers, Scientists and Philosophers by Michel Serres.

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