Books by Elsa Morante
“Morante opposes the anonymity of war—the war of masses, states, armies, troops and she commits us to the individual” Read more...
David Grossman on the Books That Shaped Him
David Grossman, Novelist
“This is Elsa Morante’s great book…This book is completely unique. You won’t find anything like this in the whole of literature. The voice is very strange and the story is told from a distance. We don’t know how old the narrator is but he is talking about when he was a little boy growing up in isolation on a little island off Naples called Procida…he’s a little boy constantly inventing the world and desiring to be taken into the world of his father and the world of adults, and the only thing he has got to go on when inventing the world is the library in the house he’s in, which is a library full of literature about classical heroes.” Read more...
Tim Parks, Novelist
Menzogna e sortilegio (Lies and Sorcery)
by Elsa Morante
It is considered a modern Italian classic, about a young girl who falls in love with her cousin, but it is a mixture of imagination of ghosts and of reality. It is a strange book, almost surrealist.
Interviews where books by Elsa Morante were recommended
The Best Italian Novels, recommended by Tim Parks
In the decades following Italian unification, its authors started writing in the new common language: Italian. Italy-based novelist Tim Parks introduces us to some of the best novels by some of Italy’s greatest writers.
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Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor’s Son
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The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories
by Bruno Schultz and Celina Wieniewska (translator) -
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Dubliners
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Mario and the Magician and Other Stories
by Thomas Mann -
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History: A Novel
by Elsa Morante & William Weaver (translator)
David Grossman on the Books That Shaped Him
David Grossman on the Books That Shaped Him
David Grossman, renowned Israeli author and winner of the 2017 Man Booker International Prize, shares the books that have shaped his writing, from Sholem Aleichem to James Joyce and Elsa Morante
