Le Troisieme Sexe Des Avant-Gardes

by Dacia Maraini, Franca Bruera (Editor), Cathy Margaillan (Editor)

This work explores the essential role played by women within the cultural circuit of historical avant-gardes and examines their revealing contribution in Europe in the specific context of literary and artistic experimentalism in the first half of the twentieth century.

296 pages, Paperback

Published September 13, 2017

About the author

Dacia Maraini is an Italian writer. She is the daughter of Sicilian Princess Topazia Alliata di Salaparuta, an artist and art dealer, and of Fosco Maraini, a Florentine ethnologist and mountaineer of mixed Ticinese, English and Polish background who wrote in particular on Tibet and Japan. Maraini's work focuses on women’s issues, and she has written numerous plays and novels.

Alberto Moravia was her partner from 1962 until 1983.