Elsa Morante

"History was written nearly thirty years after Elsa Morante and Alberto Moravia spent a year in hiding among remote farming villages in the mountains south of Rome. There she witnessed the full impact of the war and first formed the ambition to write an account of what history - the great political events driven by men of power, wealth, and ambition - does when it reaches the realm of ordinary people struggling for life and bread. The central character in this powerful and unforgiving novel is Ida Mancuso, a schoolteacher whose husband has died and whose feckless teenage son treats the war as his playground. A German soldier on his way to North Africa rapes her, falls in love with her, and leaves her pregnant with a boy whose survival becomes Ida's passion. Around these two other characters come and go, each caught up by the war which is like a river in flood. We catch glimpses of bombing raids, street crimes, a cattle car from which human cries emerge, an Italian soldier succumbing to frostbite on the Russian front, the dumb endurance of peasants who have lived their whole lives with nothing and now must get by with less than nothing. "One of the few novels in any language that renders the full horror of Hitler's war, the war that never gets into the books . . ."-- Alfred Kazan, "Esquire "A storyteller who spellbinds."-- Stephen Spender, "The New York Review of Books "A marvel of a novel . . . all the pleasures that fiction can offer."-- Doris Grumbach, "Saturday Review

A Novel

History

romanzo

L'isola di Arturo

Jenny McPhee

Lies and Sorcery

Menzogna e sortilegio

On a small island in the Tyrrhenian Sea lives an,innocent boy, Arturo, whose mother is dead and,father is away. Black-clad women care for himgiving him the freedom to come and go as he,pleases, but then his father returns with a new,wife, Nunziata, who is barely older than Arturo.,At first hatred and contempt are all the boy feels,for his new stepmother, but as time passes Arturo,and Nunziata recreate the tragedy and passion that,are as old as the history of men and women.

Arturo's Island

A questo romanzo (pensato e scritto in tre anni, dal 1971 al 1974) Elsa Morante consegna la massima esperienza della sua vita "dentro la Storia" quasi a spiegamento totale di tutte le sue precedenti esperienze narrative: da "L'isola di Arturo" a "Menzogna e sortilegio". La Storia, che si svolge a Roma durante e dopo la seconda guerra mondiale, vorrebbe parlare in un linguaggio comune e accessibile a tutti. Annotation Supplied by Informazioni Editoriali

La storia

PAULA CRISTINA LAPOLLA

Loredana de Stauber Caprara

Os pensamentos, alegrias e dores de um adolescente que passa grande parte de seu tempo sozinho em sua ilha encantada, Procida, com seu barco e sua cadela. Em meio a leituras apaixonadas e desordenadas levam Arturo a sonhar, a viver o primeiro amor e à descoberta do sexo. A história é narrada pelo protagonista, agora adulto, após um número indeterminado de anos que compreendem a experiência da guerra, da qual participa, e reproduz a fala interior do garoto, com toda a ingenuidade, entusiasmos e ideais, arrogância e incompreensão de uma adolescência solitária não acostumada a ao convívio com os outros.

A ilha de Arturo

L' isola di Arturo

A Novel (Italia Series)

roman

Arturo'nun adası

William Weaver

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.

Aracoeli

La Storia, tome 2

a novel

La Storia, tome 1

La Storia

A história

«Non c'è parola, in nessun linguaggio umano, capace di consolare le cavie che non sanno il perché della loro morte». Un sopravvissuto di Hiroshima *** «... hai nascosto queste cose ai dotti e ai savi e le hai rivelate ai piccoli... perché cosí a te piacque». Luca, X - 21

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