My First Seven Years (Plus a Few More): A Memoir

By Dario Fo

Book Overview

An extraordinary coming-of-age memoir by the Nobel-Prize-winning playwright ? My First Seven Years is Dario Fo's fantastic, enchanting memoir of his youth?spent in Northern Italy on the shores of Lago Maggiore. As a child, Fo grew up in a picturesque village teeming with glass-blowers, smugglers and storytellers.?Of his teenage years, Fo recounts the struggles of the Fascists and Partisans, the years of World War II, and his own tragicomic experience trying to desert the Fascist army. ? In?a series of colorful vignettes, Fo draws us into a remarkable early life filled with characters and anecdotes that would become the inspiration for?his own?creative genius.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312359179
• ISBN13: 9780312359171
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Outstanding view of human folies and the comical aspect of history

This is a great introduction to the theme and style of writings by Dario Fo, both from professional and personal aspect. One discovers, with much delight "La vie en rose" sort to speak, the great human integrity with which people deal with the darkest chapters of man-kind history, in fear, in war, in suffering, in death. Reminiscent of Bernini's theatrical production of "Life is beautiful", "My first seven years" is a honest, and often hilarious account of the author's coming-of-age through the lense of a genuine and perceptive mind.