Anna Maria Ortese

Anna Maria Ortese: L’Iguana

January 5, 2004

Humanity’s fall from grace between reality, dream and lunacy. Born in Rome in the year 1914, Anna Maria Ortese grew up in southern Italy (primarily Naples) and in Lybia, the fifth of nine children of a soldier’s family often short on money. Like many poor girls of her generation, Ortese left school at age thirteen, […]