Tage in Rebibbia

The equally open and moving prison diary of a brave woman who refused to make compromises and followed her dreams. To write her century's novel "The Art of Joy," Goliarda Sapienza gives up everything: her career as an actress in film and theater and all other writing assignments. Completely impoverished, she commits theft to survive and continue writing. She is sentenced and sent to a women's prison in Rome: Rebbibbia, which becomes her school of life. In less than 200 pages, Goliarda Sapienza takes us behind the thickest walls of the Roman district of Trastevere and opens up a world of her own. What we experience with her there is so warm-hearted and horrific, so frightening and loving, and in its spatial limitation so impressively worldly that I am sure, now that this book is finally available in German, we will never forget Goliarda Sapienza. Maria-Christina Piwowarski.