100 challenge_Roberta Gattel

Envy, a sad passion, Elena Pulcini, 2011 One day, an elderly lady knocked on a family's door to tell them that the child they were expecting had been cursed and...

Familiar Lexicon, Natalia Ginzburg, 1963   A conversation with two friends left a profound impression on me some time ago. At the time, I was living in Bologna, and a...

A woman, Sibilla Aleramo, 1906 Some intellectuals of the time called her a "sexual sink" for having more than one relationship, not just with men, but Sibilla Aleramo managed to...

Diary, Etty Hillesum, 1941 - 1943 While tidying up my bookcase, I came across a small notebook I used as a diary. Taken by a melancholy curiosity, I started leafing...

The production and embodiment of respectability, Malathi De Alwis, 1997   The role of the Christian missionary was the same as in any colonized country: education was used as a...

Sick Woman Theory, Johanna Hedva, 2020   In my twenties, everyone around me went in and out of relationships like hamsters in a laboratory maze; it seemed there was nothing...