Elsa Moranteauthor profile |
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| born | August 18, 1912 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| died | November 25, 1984 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| gender | female | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Rome | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| genre | Short Stories, Children's Books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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about this author
Elsa married the novelist Alberto Moravia in 1941, and through him she met many of the leading Italian thinkers and writers of the day. Morante began writing short stories which appeared in various publications and periodicals, including periodicals for children, in the 1930s. Her first book was a collection of some of the stories, Il Gioco Segreto, published in 1941. It was followed in 1942 by a children's book, La Bellissime avventure di Caterì dalla Trecciolina (rewritten in 1959 as Le straordinarie avventure di Caterina). |
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books by Elsa Morantecombine editionsavg rating: 4.12 | 68 ratings | 16 distinct works
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quotes by Elsa Morante
"Ida recognized this confused chorus...all this wretched human sound from the cars caught her in a heartrending sweetness, because of a constant memory that didn't return to her from known time, but from some other channel: from the same place as her father's little Calabrian songs that had lulled her, or the anonymous poem of the previous night, or the little kisses that whispered carina, carina to her. It was a place of repose that drew her down, into the promiscuous den of a single, endless family."
— Elsa Morante
— Elsa Morante
