Book included among the twelve candidates for the 2024 Strega Prize
Presented by Nadia Terranova as part of the titles proposed by the Friends of Sunday for the 2024 Strega Prize.
The author of One Hundred Strokes of the Brush Before Going to Sleep .
«I'll bring you my bank statements. Other than novels, that's where you find people's stories. This is how you get to know people, what they are running away from and what they have been seduced by; if you want to know the past and the future that's where you have to look, forget about the stars, the cards, the lines of the hand.»
This story is told by a writer, made famous when she was very young by a daring novel in which she put herself on stage. Now she is an adult woman, she has built a family and she seems to have understood that writing for her was the fruit of an urgency that has now subsided. But her life is responsible for showing her that to truly know herself you need to find the mirror in which to look at yourself and puts Clara in her path, the actress who fifteen years before her was her double in the film based on one of the novels. her. Clara is still beautiful but her large green eyes at times become pools of shame; Clara is hungry but she swallows with difficulty; Clara has no more money, and she finds the courage to ask whoever she meets for it. Most of all, Clara needs to tell her story and suddenly this becomes a mission that affects both of them. For the two protagonists, a journey begins that unravels in the footsteps of the only food that - together with passion - can allow us to become who we are: money. After having dared to put her female desire at the center of her pages, Melissa Panarello writes her most authentic and intense novel which aims to investigate another great taboo: that of money in the hands of a woman. The figure of Clara T. stands out in these pages like an ancient divinity devoured by her own lover, and with a firm voice she talks about the burns that success and wealth leave on the skin of those who go through them, the traps that youth sets for those it is more fragile, the privilege and damnation of talent.
Proposed by Nadia Terranova for the 2024 Strega Prize with the following motivation:
«Twenty years ago a writer published a novel that was a fairy tale about love, about loneliness, about the search for oneself through the body. She was a teenager, and she was also a writer: you don't become one at an age, you are born one - however, since she was young, that novel testified to her youth. It sparked an outcry because it also testified to an era in which it was considered unacceptable for adolescents to have a sexual life that escaped the projections of adults, it was defined as immoral and scandalous, hashtags or cordons against misogynistic attacks were not in fashion at the time, and the translated writer all over the world he attracted the worst, always getting by without complaints and with elegance. Twenty years later, the writer is still a writer, and unlike many who yearn for success she has never had to chase it, rather she has allowed herself the luxury of not abandoning the only truly daring adventure of her life: being herself . [...] Thus, History of My Money turns out to be a magnificent, slippery and knowledgeable novel, which plays with the grotesque, with the literary double, with self-fiction, written by the wise voice of a woman capable of embracing the little girl who cannot will never stop bringing in. A voice that is both millenary and childish, and therefore, without the need for poses or disguises, simply and naturally magical.»
Book included among the twelve candidates for the 2024 Strega Prize
Presented by Nadia Terranova as part of the titles proposed by the Friends of Sunday for the 2024 Strega Prize.
The author of One Hundred Strokes of the Brush Before Going to Sleep .
«I'll bring you my bank statements. Other than novels, that's where you find people's stories. This is how you get to know people, what they are running away from and what they have been seduced by; if you want to know the past and the future that's where you have to look, forget about the stars, the cards, the lines of the hand.»
This story is told by a writer, made famous when she was very young by a daring novel in which she put herself on stage. Now she is an adult woman, she has built a family and she seems to have understood that writing for her was the fruit of an urgency that has now subsided. But her life is responsible for showing her that to truly know herself you need to find the mirror in which to look at yourself and puts Clara in her path, the actress who fifteen years before her was her double in the film based on one of the novels. her. Clara is still beautiful but her large green eyes at times become pools of shame; Clara is hungry but she swallows with difficulty; Clara has no more money, and she finds the courage to ask whoever she meets for it. Most of all, Clara needs to tell her story and suddenly this becomes a mission that affects both of them. For the two protagonists, a journey begins that unravels in the footsteps of the only food that - together with passion - can allow us to become who we are: money. After having dared to put her female desire at the center of her pages, Melissa Panarello writes her most authentic and intense novel which aims to investigate another great taboo: that of money in the hands of a woman. The figure of Clara T. stands out in these pages like an ancient divinity devoured by her own lover, and with a firm voice she talks about the burns that success and wealth leave on the skin of those who go through them, the traps that youth sets for those it is more fragile, the privilege and damnation of talent.
Proposed by Nadia Terranova for the 2024 Strega Prize with the following motivation:
«Twenty years ago a writer published a novel that was a fairy tale about love, about loneliness, about the search for oneself through the body. She was a teenager, and she was also a writer: you don't become one at an age, you are born one - however, since she was young, that novel testified to her youth. It sparked an outcry because it also testified to an era in which it was considered unacceptable for adolescents to have a sexual life that escaped the projections of adults, it was defined as immoral and scandalous, hashtags or cordons against misogynistic attacks were not in fashion at the time, and the translated writer all over the world he attracted the worst, always getting by without complaints and with elegance. Twenty years later, the writer is still a writer, and unlike many who yearn for success she has never had to chase it, rather she has allowed herself the luxury of not abandoning the only truly daring adventure of her life: being herself . [...] Thus, History of My Money turns out to be a magnificent, slippery and knowledgeable novel, which plays with the grotesque, with the literary double, with self-fiction, written by the wise voice of a woman capable of embracing the little girl who cannot will never stop bringing in. A voice that is both millenary and childish, and therefore, without the need for poses or disguises, simply and naturally magical.»
Book included among the twelve candidates for the 2024 Strega Prize
Presented by Nadia Terranova as part of the titles proposed by the Friends of Sunday for the 2024 Strega Prize.
The author of One Hundred Strokes of the Brush Before Going to Sleep .
«I'll bring you my bank statements. Other than novels, that's where you find people's stories. This is how you get to know people, what they are running away from and what they have been seduced by; if you want to know the past and the future that's where you have to look, forget about the stars, the cards, the lines of the hand.»
This story is told by a writer, made famous when she was very young by a daring novel in which she put herself on stage. Now she is an adult woman, she has built a family and she seems to have understood that writing for her was the fruit of an urgency that has now subsided. But her life is responsible for showing her that to truly know herself you need to find the mirror in which to look at yourself and puts Clara in her path, the actress who fifteen years before her was her double in the film based on one of the novels. her. Clara is still beautiful but her large green eyes at times become pools of shame; Clara is hungry but she swallows with difficulty; Clara has no more money, and she finds the courage to ask whoever she meets for it. Most of all, Clara needs to tell her story and suddenly this becomes a mission that affects both of them. For the two protagonists, a journey begins that unravels in the footsteps of the only food that - together with passion - can allow us to become who we are: money. After having dared to put her female desire at the center of her pages, Melissa Panarello writes her most authentic and intense novel which aims to investigate another great taboo: that of money in the hands of a woman. The figure of Clara T. stands out in these pages like an ancient divinity devoured by her own lover, and with a firm voice she talks about the burns that success and wealth leave on the skin of those who go through them, the traps that youth sets for those it is more fragile, the privilege and damnation of talent.
Proposed by Nadia Terranova for the 2024 Strega Prize with the following motivation:
«Twenty years ago a writer published a novel that was a fairy tale about love, about loneliness, about the search for oneself through the body. She was a teenager, and she was also a writer: you don't become one at an age, you are born one - however, since she was young, that novel testified to her youth. It sparked an outcry because it also testified to an era in which it was considered unacceptable for adolescents to have a sexual life that escaped the projections of adults, it was defined as immoral and scandalous, hashtags or cordons against misogynistic attacks were not in fashion at the time, and the translated writer all over the world he attracted the worst, always getting by without complaints and with elegance. Twenty years later, the writer is still a writer, and unlike many who yearn for success she has never had to chase it, rather she has allowed herself the luxury of not abandoning the only truly daring adventure of her life: being herself . [...] Thus, History of My Money turns out to be a magnificent, slippery and knowledgeable novel, which plays with the grotesque, with the literary double, with self-fiction, written by the wise voice of a woman capable of embracing the little girl who cannot will never stop bringing in. A voice that is both millenary and childish, and therefore, without the need for poses or disguises, simply and naturally magical.»
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