Residenza le 6A

Angiolina

In "As a Man Grows Older" Angiolina Zarri is a young beautiful lower-class woman who fatally attracts Emilio. Their affair was initially meant to help Emilio brighten his dull life, but then he falls madly in love with the girl, who will give him the only Carnival out of his life of eternal Lent.
Free, sensual and full of life, genuine and naïve, fickle and elusive, Angiolina is a force of nature, wild and untamed. She is fire. Her exuberant sexuality will come into clash with the middle-class conventions of the late 20th century Trieste.

This is how Italo Svevo describes her:

Angiolina, a blonde with large blue eyes, tall and strong though slender and graceful, her face lit up with life, with the amber yellow complexion of good health, walked next to him, her head bowed to one side, as if bent under the weight of all the gold that wrapped her ...

Evidently she had in her eye, for any smart man passing by her, some kind of greeting; her eye would not watch, but a flash of light sparkled in it. In her pupil something moved and constantly altered the deepness and direction of light. That eye popped!

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Le 6A

• Annetta
• Amalia
• Angiolina
• Ada
• Alberta
• Augusta