by Dacia Maraini · Rizzoli · tapa dura · ISBN 9788817664684
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«Dolce per sé» is the novel by Dacia Maraini, published by Rizzoli in hardcover in 1997 (189 pages, in Italian).
Vera, at fifty, writes from 1988 to 1995 an epistolary account addressed to Flavia, the young niece of the violinist Edoardo, with whom she had a love affair now over. In those letters, the memory of that relationship intertwines with travels, concerts and fragile family mythologies, in an existential mosaic about the passage of time.
It belongs to Rizzoli's Scala italiani collection and was awarded the Brancati Prize in 1997.
For readers of contemporary Italian fiction seeking an intimate story about memory and personal relationships.
Dacia Maraini is an Italian writer. Maraini's work focuses on women's issues, and she has written numerous plays and novels. She has won awards for her work, including the Formentor Prize for L'età del malessere (1963); the Fregene Prize for Isolina (1985); the Premio Campiello and Book of the Year Award for La lunga vita di Marianna Ucrìa (1990); and the Premio Strega for Buio (1999). In 2013, Irish Braschi's biographical documentary I Was Born Travelling told the story of her life, focusing in particular on her imprisonment in a concentration camp in Japan during World War II and the journeys she made around the world with her partner Alberto Moravia and close friends Pier Paolo Pasolini and Maria Callas.
