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  Elsa Morante - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Morante, Elsa, 1918-85, Italian novelist and poet; wife of Alberto Moravia.
Her prose style, which is indebted to surrealism and magic realism, is characterized by the clear presentation of unreal events and always stresses the power of the imagination.
Morante also published a collection of essays, a book of short stories, and a children's book.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-morante.html   (284 words)

  
 LitWeb.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Morante was at one time (1941-1963) married to novelist Alberto Moravia; they were later divorced.
Elsa Morante was born in Rome, the daughter of a Sicilian father and Emilian mother.
Morante's marriage with the writer Alberto Moravia brought her into contact with the leading Italian writers and intellectuals of the day.
www.litweb.net /biogs/morante_elsa.html   (514 words)

  
 Elsa Morante
Morante was at one time (1941-1963) married to novelist Alberto Moravia; they later separated.
Morante's marriage with the writer Alberto Moravia, an opponent of Mussolini's fascist government, brought her into contact with the leading Italian writers and intellectuals of the day.
Morante's Menzogna e sortilegio was written in poetic language and showed the influence of Katherine Mansfield, whose work Morante had translated.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /emorante.htm   (1143 words)

  
 Cesare Garboli: Elsa Morante: la storia e le sue vittime
Elsa Morante si trova sempre più a dialogare con i Movimenti Giovanili degli anni Sessanta e a loro dedicherà una sorta di prologo al romanzo, la sublime ballata: "Il mondo salvato dai ragazzini".
Elsa Morante pensa che la storia sia stata essenzialmente un eccidio di innocenti, di creature innocenti e che abbia colpito soprattutto coloro che non sanno la storia, ma la subiscono.
Elsa Morante era un'anima profondamente religiosa, ma in modo molto individuale e in qualche modo solitario e non confessionale.
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 History by Elsa Morante
Elsa Morante (1918-1985) was born in Rome to a father who was a schoolteacher and a native of Sicily, while her mother came originally from Moderna in northern Italy.
Morante's literary reputation has been on the rise in Italy since the publication of her first major work, House of Liars, in 1948, which won a top Italian literary prize, the Primo Viareggio, and a large and devoted readership.
Morante was also a prolific poet, often including verse and prose poetry in her fictional works.
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 Elsa Morante - Wikipedia
Elsa Morante (Roma 18 agosto 1912 - 25 novembre 1985) è stata una scrittrice di narrativa italiana tra i più importanti romanzieri del dopoguerra.
Elsa Morante iniziò giovanissima a scrivere filastrocche e favole per bambini, poesie e racconti brevi, che a partire dal 1933, sino all'inizio della seconda guerra mondiale, furono via via pubblicati su varie riviste di diversa natura (tra le quali si ricordano Il Corriere dei Piccoli, Il Meridiano di Roma, I Diritti della Scuola, Oggi).
Il primo romanzo che Elsa Morante pubblicò fu Menzogna e sortilegio, uscito in Italia nel 1948 che vinse il Premio Viareggio.
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 Elsa Morante - Biografia
Elsa Morante, da «narratrice nata», offre appassionatamente tutta la sua esistenza alla letteratura.
In Elsa Morante, infatti, il bisogno di autonomia contrasta con una forte esigenza di protezione e di affetto.
Dopo un nuovo intervento chirurgico rimane in clinica, a Roma, dove muore d'infarto il 25 novembre del 1985.
www.italialibri.net /autori/morantee.html   (824 words)

  
 La Storia - Elsa Morante
La Morante non l’ignora più come nei romanzi precedenti, ma l’affronta direttamente per denunciare a gran voce i suoi misfatti, manifestando — in pari tempo — il proprio atteggiamento di rifiuto verso di essa.
Elsa Morante in questo romanzo dimostra di amare la vita più che mai in tutte le sue manifestazioni, seguendo con calore materno la crescita delle sue creature fino alla loro morte, animali inclusi.
Grazie ad Elsa Morante per essere riuscita a farci vedere la guerra attraverso gli occhietti azzurri di Useppe, povera creatura senza importanza, simbolo di tutti gli oppressi di ogni epoca e guerra.
www.italialibri.net /opere/lastoria.html   (4056 words)

  
 Elsa Morante | History --- A Novel
Perhaps we could say that it's not far from the USA Trilogy --- largely because Morante is intent on tying history, and the history of WWII, and the history of the world, to her characters.
The writer Elsa Morante was married to the Italian novelist Alberto Moravia.
Morante has the ability to capture characters and details so completely that it puts us in the middle of her movie.
www.ralphmag.org /AR/elsa-morante.html   (1583 words)

  
 Nextbook: Glamour and Peril
Morante was born in 1912 and was raised in the working-class Testaccio section of Rome.
Though her mother was a teacher, Morante didn't attend school regularly until age 10, when her family moved to the other side of the Tiber.
Morante's second novel, L'isola di Arturo (Arturo's Island), in which an adult narrator tells the story of a boyhood spent in isolation on the smallest island in the Gulf of Naples, appeared in 1957.
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 Amazon.com: History: A Novel: Books: Elsa Morante,Grizzuti Harrison,William Weaver   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
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.
Elsa Morante walks you through the life and times of an Italian woman in Rome during WWII.
www.amazon.com /History-Novel-Elsa-Morante/dp/1586420046   (1422 words)

  
 Elsa Morante (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
In the late 1940s, the American translator William Weaver arrived in Rome and became friends with a number of writers, among them Moravia and Morante, and made their work known in the United States.
Menzogna e sortilegio, set in a Sicily both modern and legendary, presented themes that were central in Morante's works: memories, dreams and obsessions spanning over generations, a young, sensitive person in rebellion against bourgeois traditions, a private world threatened by external reality.
The story focuses on the lives of Iduzza, Ida Mancusco, a half-Jewish schoolteacher, her child Useppe, who dies of an epileptic attack, and Nino, her elder son, a fascist who becomes a partisan.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi.cob-web.org:8888 /emorante.htm   (1143 words)

  
 Elsa Morante - Penguin Academics Authors - Penguin Academics
Born in Rome in 1918, Morante was married to the writer Alberto Moravia.
During the last years of World War II, the couple were refugees in the countryside near Cassino.
Morante died in Rome on November 25, 1985.
academics.penguin.co.uk /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000046851,00.html   (104 words)

  
 La Storia di Elsa Morante. Dal romanzo al film
Nel 1974 esce, presso le edizioni tascabili Einaudi, il romanzo La Storia di Elsa Morante ed è un clamoroso successo letterario, paragonabile a quello avuto anni prima dal Gattopardo di Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa.
Comencini, nella scena dello stupro, mostra in primo piano le cosce tonde e ben tornite della Cardinale che non hanno niente a che vedere con la protagonista del romanzo.
Questa caratteristica di Ida è presente anche in altri personaggi della Morante, in cui l'universo femminile è diviso in due e amore e passione sono visti come momento di sogno, destinato a non durare e a infrangersi nella realtà.
www.repubblicaletteraria.it /ElsaMorante2.html   (1483 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Elsa Morante (Italian Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Elsa Morante (Italian Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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Elsa Morante[el´su mOrAn´tA] Pronunciation Key, 1918–85, Italian novelist and poet; wife of Alberto Moravia.
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 Elsa Morante Summary
Elsa Morante(August 18, 1912- 25 November, 1985) was an Italian novelist, perhaps best known for her novel La Storia(History).
Biography Elsa Morante was born in Rome, receiving only sporadical education.
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 Books by Elsa Morante, compare prices
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Under Arturo's Star : The Cultural Legacies of Elsa Morante
by William Weaver, William Weaver (Translator), Elsa Morante
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 THEMISATHENA.INFO: Elsa Morante
Elsa Morante's biography at the Kirjasto Authors' Calendar
The Elsa Morante page of The LofotenMoose (formerly known as The LiteraryMoose)
Themis-Athena's Guide to Women Writers: Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3
www.themisathena.info /literature/morante.html   (56 words)

  
 The Mirrors eBooks - Elsa Morante - William Weaver - Martha King - Visit eBookMall Today!
The Mirrors eBooks - Elsa Morante - William Weaver - Martha King - Visit eBookMall Today!
By: Elsa Morante ~ Translator: William Weaver ~ Editor: Martha King
An excerpt from Elsa Morante's last novel "Aracoeli," which has been described as "a mixture of private dreams, fantasies, imaginary encounters, and flashbacks."
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 Textbooks by Elsa Morante - Direct Textbook   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
ISBN 1586420410 - EAN 9781586420413 - Sell ISBN 1586420410
Selected Letters of William Faulkner - Franklin Press Leather Bound Limited Edition by Elsa ; Weaver, William (Translator from Italian) ; Campbell, James (Illustrator) Morante
Author: Elsa ; Weaver, William (Translator from Italian) ; Campbell, James (Illustrator) Morante
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 Under Arturo's Star: The Cultural Legacies of Elsa Morante - Stefania; Wood, Sharon Lucamante   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Under Arturo's Star: The Cultural Legacies of Elsa Morante - Stefania; Wood, Sharon Lucamante
Under Arturo's Star: The Cultural Legacies of Elsa Morante by Lucamante, Stefania; Wood, Sharon
Note: Cover may not represent actual copy or condition available
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