Goliarda Sapienza was born in Sicily in 1924 into a socialist-anarchist family. At the age of 16, she enrolled in the Academy of Arts in Rome and worked with directors such as Luchino Visconti. L’Art de la joie was published in its entirety in 1998, 20 years after the manuscript was completed. Indeed, the book was rejected by most publishers, and Sapienza decided to put it aside to pursue other writing projects. She died in 1996, never having had the chance to see the publication of her novel, a brilliant and shocking saga often compared with Lampudesa’s The Leopard.
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