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'Thrillingly addictive, magnificent, luxurious . . . as staggering and absorbing as a great 19th-century novel' Telegraph 'I loved it and it had been a long time since I had read anything that gave me such life and joy' Natalia Ginzburg The first unabridged English translation of the electrifying novel of secrets and delusions, from one of the greatest Italian writers of the twentieth century.Elisa – orphaned as a child, raised by a ‘fallen woman’, fed by fairy tales – has lived in an outlandish imaginary world for years. When her guardian dies, she feels compelled to confront her family’s tortured and dramatic past, weaving the tale of her mother and grandmother through a history of intrigue, treachery, deception and desire. But as her saga of three generations of Sicilian women proceeds, it becomes something else entirely, taking in a whole legacy of oppression and injustice. By turns flamboyant and intense, raging and funny, Lies and Sorcery is a celebration of the female imagination, and the power of storytelling itself. First published in 1948, Elsa Morante’s debut novel won the Viareggio Prize and earned her the lasting admiration of generations of writers from Italo Calvino and Natalia Ginzburg to Elena Ferrante. Translated by Jenny McPhee WINNER OF THE ALTA 2024 ITALIAN PROSE IN TRANSLATION AWARDWINNER OF THE JOHN FLORIO PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE OXFORD-WEIDENFELD PRIZE 2024

'Thrillingly addictive, magnificent, luxurious . . . as staggering and absorbing as a great 19th-century novel' Telegraph'I loved it and it had been a long time since I had read anything that gave me such life and joy' Natalia GinzburgThe first unabridged English translation of the electrifying novel of secrets and delusions, from one of the greatest Italian writers of the twentieth century.Elisa – orphaned as a child, raised by a ‘fallen woman’, fed by fairy tales – has lived in an outlandish imaginary world for years. When her guardian dies, she feels compelled to confront her family’s tortured and dramatic past, weaving the tale of her mother and grandmother through a history of intrigue, treachery, deception and desire. But as her saga of three generations of Sicilian women proceeds, it becomes something else entirely, taking in a whole legacy of oppression and injustice. By turns flamboyant and intense, raging and funny, Lies and Sorcery is a celebration of the female imagination, and the power of storytelling itself.First published in 1948, Elsa Morante’s debut novel won the Viareggio Prize and earned her the lasting admiration of generations of writers from Italo Calvino and Natalia Ginzburg to Elena Ferrante.Translated by Jenny McPheeWINNER OF THE ALTA 2024 ITALIAN PROSE IN TRANSLATION AWARDWINNER OF THE JOHN FLORIO PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE OXFORD-WEIDENFELD PRIZE 2024

Once considered the greatest writer of Italy's postwar generation-and admired by authors as varied as John Banville and Rivka Galchen-Elsa Morante is experiencing a literary renaissance, marked not least by Ann Goldstein's translation of Arturo's Island, the novel that brought Morante international fame. Imbued with a spectral grace, as if told through an enchanted looking glass, the novel follows the adolescent Arturo through his days on the isolated Neapolitan island of Procida, where-his mother long deceased, his father often absent, and a dog as his sole companion-he roams the countryside and the beaches or reads in his family's lonely, dilapidated mansion. This quiet, meandering existence is upended when his father brings home a beautiful sixteen-year-old bride, Nunziatella. A novel of longing and thwarted desires, filled with Morante's "brutal directness and familial torment" (James Wood), Arturo's Island reemerges in this splendid translation to take its rightful place in the world literary canon.

Elsa Morante's novels were once considered the greatest of Italy's postwar generation. Here, Ann Goldstein's "deft translation" (Madeline Schwartz, New York Review of Books) of Arturo's Island heralds a "second life" for the beloved author, finally garnering Morante "the new readers she deserves" (Lily Tuck, Wall Street Journal). Imbued with a spectral grace, the novel follows the adolescent Arturo through his days on the isolated Neapolitan island of Procida, where--his mother long deceased, his father often absent, and a dog as his sole companion--he roams the countryside or reads in his family's lonely, dilapidated mansion. This quiet, meandering boyhood existence is existentially upended when his father brings home a beautiful sixteen- year- old bride, Nunziatella. A novel of thwarted desires, written with "the power of malediction" (Dwight Garner, New York Times), Arturo's Island reemerges to take its rightful place in the world literary canon.

An Italian master's magnum opus about three generations of women and their unhappy marriages, now in the first-gever unabridged English translation. Elsa Morante is one of the great writers of the twentieth century--Natalia Ginzburg said she was the writer of her own generation that she admired most--and yet her work remains little known in the United States. Morante's celebrated first novel, Lies and Sorcery, written during the war, when Morante, half-Jewish, was living in hiding, and published in 1948, is a sprawling 700-page novel in the grand tradition of Stendhal, Tolstoy, and Proust, spanning the lives of three generations of wildly eccentric women. Set in Sicily, the story is told by Elisa, who, after the sudden death of her parents, was adopted at a young age by a wealthy "fallen woman." Over the fifteen years that she has lived with her "protectress," Elisa has retreated into an imaginary world populated by relatives and ancestors. Beginning with the death of Elisa's guardian, Lies and Sorcery recounts this young woman's attempt to reclaim reality by uncovering the dark details of her family's tortured and dramatic history. The reader is drawn into a tale, sweeping in scope, of family secrets, of intrigue and treachery, that is also an exploration of political and social injustice. Throughout, Morante's elegant and elaborate prose as well as her drive to get at the heart of her characters' complex motivations and relationships and their all-too self-destructive behavior hold us spellbound. A heavily abridged English translation of Lies and Sorcery came out in the 1950s under the title of House of Lies. Jenny McPhee's new translation is the first complete English rendering of the book that Georg Luk cs considered the greatest of modern Italian novels.

In this little-known classic of Italian literature, young Arturo grows up in near-isolation on the island of Procida in the Bay of Naples. His mother died in childbirth and his wayward father, who left him as a child in the care of a servant on the island, returns only sporadically. Cut off from the island community, Arturo exists almost entirely in solitude: he roams the island with his beloved dog, sails in his boat and reads tales of virtuous heroes and adventurers whom he imagines resemble his father. The boy's world is upended when his father arrives from Naples with his new wife Nunziata, who at sixteen is only a few years older than Arturo. Their presence shatters his childhood idyll, awakening passionate feelings and drawing the family towards painful conflict. Arturo's Island is a moving and dramatic portrayal of the loss of childhood idealism and the inescapable force of desire.

'Unsurpassable' Elena Ferrante 'Timeless' John Banville Young Arturo grows up in isolated freedom on an island in the Bay of Naples, roaming the hills with his dog, sailing and reading tales of mythical heroes. This idyll is shattered when his father returns home with a new wife, Nunziata. Barely older than Arturo, one of the only women he has ever met, she awakens his fierce longing for tenderness, a longing which draws the family towards a painful reckoning in this powerful story of disillusionment and desire. Part of the Pushkin Press Classics series: timeless storytelling by icons of literature, hand-picked from around the globe. Translated by Ann Goldstein. Elsa Morante (1912-1985) was an Italian novelist, short-story writer and poet. Born and raised in Rome, she started writing at a young age, initially publishing short stories in children's journals. Married to the writer Alberto Moravia, she spent much of the Second World War in hiding with him, both having much to fear from the Fascists due to their Jewish heritage and the social and sexual themes explored in their writing. Her first novel, House of Liars, was published in 1948 and won the Viareggio Prize. Arturo's Island, published in 1957, made her the first woman to win the Strega Prize, and in 1974 her novel History became a record-breaking bestseller and confirmed her reputation as one of the most important writers of twentieth-century Italy. Ann Goldstein is a former New Yorker editor and has won prizes and accolades for her translations of Primo Levi and Elena Ferrante.

Elza Morante (1912-1985) - klassik italjanskoj literatury XX veka, velikolepnyj prozaik, poet, avtor detskikh knig. Ona proslavilas kak tonkij stilist. Rasskazy, sobrannye v etoj knige, pokazyvajut, naskolko mnogoobrazen talant pisatelnitsy. Vse rasskazy raznye, ochen jarkie, i kazhdyj iz nikh - eto osobyj mir. Odni tjagotejut k fantasticheskim novellam, drugie napominajut pritchi ili legendy, i dazhe v istorijakh o zhizni obychnykh ljudej ostaetsja mesto dlja tajny.Eta kniga - pereizdanie sbornika rasskazov Elzy Morante "Andaluzskaja shal" 2012 goda, vyshedshego v izdatelstve "Tekst".

La historia es un cl sico del siglo XX y un referente para las actuales generaciones de escritores. El retrato de una familia humilde que resume los momentos m s duros de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Elsa Morante fue mi maestra. ...] Es hechizante. He intentado aprender de sus libros, pero me parecen insuperables. Elena Ferrante Un d a de enero de 1941 un soldado alem n callejea por el barrio de san Lorenzo de Roma, y en ese caminar sin rumbo, con unas copas de m s en el cuerpo, el joven se topa con Ida, una maestra viuda y madre de un hijo, que vuelve a casa despu s del trabajo. Vemos a una mujer de mirada sumisa y caderas anchas, que no invitan a la seducci n, pero el tiempo apremia. Al d a siguiente el soldado se ir para siempre y cualquier abrazo le vale. El hombre sigue a Ida hasta el piso humilde que comparte con su hijo. La viola, luego sonr e como disculp ndose, se fuma un pitillo, se marcha y nunca m s sabremos de l. De este acto banal en su brutalidad nacer un ni o, y la historia de la familia de Ida va a llenar las p ginas de una novela que ilumin todo el siglo XX y aun proyecta una luz intensa en la realidad de hoy. Ida y sus hijos no son part cipes en primera persona de la guerra que asola Europa, y ni siquiera tienen valor para declararse v ctimas: son comparsas, animales tristes que muestran su miseria sin reprochar nada a nadie. Sin embargo las palabras de Elsa Morante, su modo de escribir tan visceral y pr ximo, los rescata para siempre y nos los entrega m s vivos que nunca. Ella es la cronista de una historia sin Historia, y su mirada no es piadosa porque no lo necesita. Ida, Useppe, Nino: basta con acompa arlos para no olvidar.

Genudgivelse i ét bind og med nyt forord af Emma Holten. Den halvjødiske enke og lærerinde Ida bliver under et epileptisk anfald voldtaget af en ung tysk soldat. Resultatet af voldtægten er den lille Useppe, drengen, der taler med dyrene og forstår fuglenes sang. Vi er i Rom under og efter Anden Verdenskrig i årene 1941-1947. Fascisterne vifter med de sorte faner, og Il Duce og Der Führer står i begyndelsen side om side. Da bomberne falder over byen i 1943, evakueres Useppe sammen med sin menneskesky mor og sin livfulde og højtelskede storebror til en husvildebarak og kommer under tag med en række af krigens andre ofre: fortabte fascister, småkriminelle partisanere, jøder på flugt og helt almindelige storfamilier. Midt i de voksnes desperate og voldelige verden præget af angst og sult udstråler Useppe en fundamental glæde ved at være til. Historien er både et knivskarpt anklageskrift mod historiens drivkræfter og en smuk og indfølt beskrivelse af verdens gang set fra det almindelige menneskes perspektiv og anses som et hovedværk i europæisk litteratur. Historien udkommer i Jytte Lollesgaards anmelderroste oversættelse.

En av de stora italienska 1900-talsklassikernaSmåskolelärarinnan Ida Ramundo våldtas i sin lägenhet av en tysk soldat och föder sonen Giuseppe. Utanför rasar kriget och Ida är beredd att göra allt för att hennes son ska överleva. Historien [La Storia, 1974] skrevs nästan trettio år efter att Elsa Morante och hennes man Alberto Moravia, båda av judisk börd, tvingats gömma sig i en liten bergsby i södra Italien efter att ha flytt fascisterna i Rom. Utgivningen av Historien - med sitt anti-ideologiska anspråk - stod i stark kontrast mot tidens ideal och upplevdes som ytterst kontroversiell. Samtidigt blev romanen en enorm publiksuccé och sålde i 800.000 exemplar bara första året. I översättning av Anne Marie Hansen och Ingalisa Munck.ELSA MORANTE [1912-1985] är en av Italiens stora 1900-talsförfattare, i hemlandet ofta kallad enbart för La Morante. Hon gifte sig 1942 med författaren Alberto Moravia och umgicks med många av Italiens ledande tänkare, bland annat Pier Paolo Pasolini, Umberto Saba och Natalia Ginzburg. Till Morantes viktigaste romaner hör Arturos ö [L'isola di Arturo, 1957] och Historien.

Denna novellsamling som nu för första gången publiceras i svensk översättning utkom 1963 och innehåller kortprosa skriven under ett femtontal år, mellan 1935 och 1951. Varje berättelse utgör en unik inkörsport till Morantes fantastiska berättarvärld vars handling och karaktärer antar sagolika och förunderliga former. Gränsen mellan verklighet och fiktion är hårfin och de skildrande personerna pendlar mellan dragningen till det övernaturliga och den vuxna människans klarsyn, mellan rättfram verklighetsförnekelse och viljan att hänga ut sinnevärlden i hela dess nöd och elände.