Like all the centuries and the millennia that have preceded it on earth, the new century also observes the well-known, immobile principle of historical dynamics: power to some, servitude to the others." (in La Storia)Įlsa Morante was born in Rome, the daughter of Francesco Lo Monaco, a Sicilian, and Irma Poggubonzi, of Jewish descent of her mother's side. Elsa was the oldest of four surviving children, who all got a Catholic education. Morante was at one time (1941-1963) married to novelist Alberto Moravia they later separated.
Her final novel, Aracoeli (1982), earned her the Prix Medicis Etranger. Elsa Morante first achieved fame with Menzogna e sortilegio(1948, House of Liars), which received the Viareggio Prize. The penetrating study of the impact of WW II on European culture was immediately translated into several languages. Italian novelist, short-story writer and poet, whose most famous work, La storia (1974), was called at the time of its publication the novel of the century.
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