Fanfares of trumpets usually announced only small, futile t… - Natalia Ginzburg

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Fanfares of trumpets usually announced only small, futile things, it was a way fate had of teasing people. You felt a great exaltation and heard a loud fanfare of trumpets in the sky. But the serious things of life, on the contrary, took you by surprise, they spurted up all of a sudden like water.

Natalia Ginzburg

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Natalia Ginzburg (Italian: [nataˈliːa ˈɡintsburɡ], German: [ˈɡɪntsbʊʁk]; née Levi; 14 July 1916 – 7 October 1991) was an author who lived in Italy. She wrote novels, short stories and essays, which often explored family relationships, politics during and after the Fascist years and World War II, and philosophy. For a time in the 1930s she belonged to the Italian Communist Party and in 1983 she was elected to Parliament from Rome as an independent politician.

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Pen Names: Alessandra Tornimparte

Alternative Names: Natalia Levi • Natalia Levi Ginzburg • Natalia Levi Baldini

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