Francesco Pacifico’s “The Women I Love”

Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher and joined by Italian author Francesco Pacifico to discuss his latest novel, “The Women I Love,” translated by Elizabeth Harris.

By LARB Radio HourFebruary 4, 2022

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Italian author Francesco Pacifico talks with hosts Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher about his latest novel, The Women I Love, translated by Elizabeth Harris. It follows an editor and poet named Marcello who is trying to write a novel about the women in his life. The relationships he explores are sexual and romantic — there’s the young editor Eleonora, with whom he is having an affair; Barbara, his girlfriend and later his wife — as well platonic and familiar; he writes about his sister Irene as well as his mother. The book is about love and sex, as well as gender, power, and literature. How well can we know each other, even our most intimate partners?

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