I, Jean Gabin, Goliarda Sapienza

The city of Catania, Sicily, in the early 1930s. Fascism is unfolding on the island when a child emerges exhilarated from a local movie theater. She walks with a swaying gait, an imaginary cigarette in her mouth, and a formidable look in her eyes. She has just seen the film Pépé le Moko and, swept away by this embodiment of desire and insubordination, she now has only one thought: to be Jean Gabin. Written by the author of L'Art de la joie in the last years of her life, at a time when her work remained unrecognized, Moi, Jean Gabin is a strange autobiographical novel, the magnified story of a childhood in interwar Sicily. This book of origins, which can be read as a philosophical testament, turns out to be one of Goliarda Sapienza's most beautiful texts, a tribute to freedom and the dreams that prematurely nourished her life.

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9782917084502