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Elsa Morante (1912-1985) was an Italian author whose writing often addressed persecution and injustice. After fleeing Fascist authorities during World War II, Morante traveled extensively while continuing to write prolifically; she later won the Viareggio literary prize, Strega Prize, and Prix Medicis.
10 de oct. de 2023 · October 10, 2023 at 8:00 a.m. EDT. “Lies and Sorcery.” (New York Review of Books) 8 min. Starting in the late summer of 1943, the Italian writers Alberto Moravia and Elsa Morante spent nine ...
Resumen y sinopsis de Mentira y sortilegio de Elsa Morante. De sus padres, Elisa heredó tres instrumentos para gobernar su vida: el enigma, el miedo y la mentira. Con ese legado a cuestas, la joven vive a principios del siglo xx en una ciudad del sur de Italia, encerrada entre las cuatro paredes de su habitación, alimentándose de novelas que ...
8 de nov. de 2023 · November 8, 2023. Illustration by Virginia Gabrielli. In September of 1943, Elsa Morante and her husband, the novelist Alberto Moravia, fled their apartment in Rome with little more than the ...
Morante was born in Rome under murky family circumstances on August 18, 1912. Legally her father was Augusto Morante, a Sicilian schoolteacher whose name the young girl took. Her mother was Irma Poggibonsi Morante from Modena in northern Italy. Since Augusto was unable to have children, Irma had five offspring, including Elsa, using a family ...
Elena Ferrante’s penname is reportedly an homage to Elsa Morante, one of the most famous Italian women writers of the postwar generation. Ferrante’s books are full of fraught motherhood, and when she won the Elsa Morante prize (a major Italian literary honor) she went searching for “an unequivocally female passage on the mother figure,” to cite in her acceptance speech.
La Historia es la novela más célebre y más popular de Elsa Morante. Publicada originalmente en Italia en 1974, se inscribe en la tradición de los grandes clásicos del siglo XIX. Fue aclamada desde el principio por la crítica y se convirtió en un gran éxito de ventas. Relata la historia de Ida, maestra de primera enseñanza, viuda y ...
