Elsa Morante Boeken

In een oude villa op het Italiaanse eiland Procida woont een jongen met zijn vader. Arturo gaat niet naar school en brengt zijn dagen door in de wilde, weelderige natuur van het eiland. 's Avonds leest hij boeken over grote ontdekkingsreizen en het mysterieuze Oosten uit de bibliotheek van zijn vader. Die is zijn grote voorbeeld: groot, blond, onverschrokken - zoals de helden uit Arturo's boeken, die geheel hun eigen weg gaan.De grote afwezige in huis is de moeder van Arturo, die in het kraambed overleed en als een heilige wordt vereerd door haar zoon. Er is geen vrouw ter wereld om bij haar in de buurt kan komen. En dan keert zijn vader op een dag terug van zijn reizen met een jonge vrouw, met wie hij net blijkt te zijn getrouwd. Ze is maar twee jaar ouder dan Arturo en staat voor alles wat hij verafschuwt: stads, verwend en streng gelovig. En toch oefent ze een steeds grotere aantrekkingskracht op hem uit. Langzaam maar zeker wordt de paradijselijke microkosmos waarin Arturo leeft onttoverd.

A soldier wandering through the streets of Rome resolves, rather drunkenly, that he must find himself a woman. It is Ida Mancuso's fate, at precisely that moment, to turn the corner of the street, laden with shopping. The soldier sees easy prey - but Ida confronts her nightmare vision. The year is 1941, the soldier is German and she is half-Jewish. Elsa Morante's brave novel evokes the real terrors, fears and hopes of a mother living through one of the most horrifying events in recent times. In marked contrast to the posturing fascists on the political stage, this is the history of the Second World War as the ordinary people of Italy experienced it.

A representative text of a milieu marked by student protests and aspirations for moral and political renewal. First published in Italian in 1968, The World Saved by Kids was written in the aftermath of deep personal change and in the context of what Elsa Morante called the "great youth movement exploding against the funereal machinations of the organized contemporary world." Morante believed that it was only the youth who could truly hear her revolutionary call. With the fiftieth anniversary of the tumultuous events of 1968 approaching, there couldn't be a more timely moment for this first English translation of Morante's work to appear. Greeted by Antonio Porta as one of the most important books of its decade, The World Saved by Kids showcases Morante's true mastery of tone, rhythm, and imagery as she works elegy, parody, storytelling, song, and more into an act of linguistic magic through which Gramsci and Rimbaud, Christ and Antigone, Mozart and Simone Weil, and a host of other figures join the sassy, vulnerable neighborhood kids in a renewal of the word's timeless, revolutionary power to explore and celebrate life's insoluble paradox. Morante gained international recognition and critical acclaim for her novels History, Arturo's Island, and Aracoeli, and The World Saved By Kids may be her best book and the one that most closely represents her spirit.

"Lies and Sorcery" is the first unabridged English translation of Elsa Morante's electrifying 1948 debut novel. It follows Elisa, an orphan raised on fairy tales, as she uncovers her family's tumultuous past. Blending intrigue, deception, and humor, the novel celebrates female imagination and the power of storytelling.

An aging man attempts to recover the past and get his life back on track in the process. His deceased mother, Aracoeli, came from a small Spanish town and married an upper class Italian navy ensign. The idyllic years she spends with her only son, Mauel, are shattered when she contracts an incurable disease and becomes a nymphomaniac. Now 43, Manuel is a unattractive, self loathing, recovering drug addict who works in a dead end job at a small publishing house. He decides to travel back to Spain to search for traces of his mother.

A representative text of a milieu marked by student protests and aspirations for moral and political renewal. First published in Italian in 1968, The World Saved by Kids was written in the aftermath of deep personal change and in the context of what Elsa Morante called the "great youth movement exploding against the funereal machinations of the organized contemporary world." Morante believed that it was only the youth who could truly hear her revolutionary call. With the fiftieth anniversary of the tumultuous events of 1968 approaching, there couldn't be a more timely moment for this first English translation of Morante's work to appear. Greeted by Antonio Porta as one of the most important books of its decade, The World Saved by Kids showcases Morante's true mastery of tone, rhythm, and imagery as she works elegy, parody, storytelling, song, and more into an act of linguistic magic through which Gramsci and Rimbaud, Christ and Antigone, Mozart and Simone Weil, and a host of other figures join the sassy, vulnerable neighborhood kids in a renewal of the word's timeless, revolutionary power to explore and celebrate life's insoluble paradox. Morante gained international recognition and critical acclaim for her novels History, Arturo's Island, and Aracoeli, and The World Saved By Kids may be her best book and the one that most closely represents her spirit.

In questo romanzo, la maestra Ida vive a Roma le esperienze del fascismo, della persecuzione degli ebrei, della guerra e del dopoguerra, insieme ai suoi due figli. Giuseppe, il figlio minore, è un bambino speciale. Elsa Morante crea un vivido ritratto della città e dei suoi abitanti, tra cui piccoli borghesi, partigiani e anarchici.

Dei moltissimi racconti scritti nella sua vita, Elsa Morante presenta qui unascelta disposta in ordine cronologico. Nei dodici racconti di questa inquietavicenda predestinata, si potrà seguire, meglio ancora che nei romanzi, il temadrammatico e affascinante che sempre ha accompagnato la scrittrice e che prende forma soprattutto nel breve romanzo finale che dà il titolo alla raccolta:il rapporto viscerale madre e figlio.

Román vypráví o nelehkém dospívání chlapce na rodném ostrově Procida poblíž Neapole v třicátých letech minulého století. Arturo žije v barbarském neposkvrněném světě mezi skalisky a plážemi, zcela odříznutém od civilizace. Žije v myšlenkách na matku, která zemřela při porodu, a bezmezně obdivuje otce, jehož má za hrdinu. Od chvíle, kdy do jeho života vstoupí otcova mladší přítelkyně Nunziata, neví, co si počít se svými pocity a zmítá se v mladickém hledání první lásky. Arturovo prozření je bolestné, a nakonec se rozhodne tento bájný a mýtický ostrov opustit. Ač od prvního italského vydání uběhlo více než šedesát let, tato výjimečná próza stále oslovuje čtenáře svou epičností a pravdivými emocemi.