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Elsa Morante

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born

August 18, 1912 in Rome, Italy

died

November 25, 1984

gender

female

genre

Short Stories, Children's Books, Literature & Fiction

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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 Morante

Average rating: 4.00 · 818 ratings · 77 reviews · 19 distinct works

	History: A Novel 4.15 avg rating — 434 ratings — published 1974 — 31 editions	My rating:
	L'isola di Arturo 3.81 avg rating — 270 ratings — published 1957 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Aracoeli by Elsa Morante, William Weaver (Translator) 3.84 avg rating — 31 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	Menzogna e Sortilegio 4.07 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1948 — 6 editions	My rating:
	La Storia - Aracoeli 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1989	My rating:
	Lo scialle andaluso 3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1963 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Il mondo salvato dai ragazzini e altri poemi 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1968 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Opere 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Diario 1938 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1989 — 4 editions	My rating:
	La Storia tome II 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1980	My rating:

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Quotes by Elsa Morante

“How strange and unnatural destiny is. I married a man eight years younger than myself, and according to the law of nature I should have been the first to die, with Him at my side. Instead, it was my destiny to witness His death.'
In speaking of Giuseppe, she always wrote Him, with a capital letter. Her style was prolix, repetitive, but with a certain academic nobility; and her handwriting was elongated, fine, even elegant. (However, in her final decline, her letters grew shorter and her written words, all shaky and twisted, groped across the page, uncertain of their direction.)”
― Elsa Morante, History: A Novel

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“So much of the news was invented for propaganda.”
― Elsa Morante, History: A Novel

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“I'm going to cover the whole world like it was a neighborhood, and in airplanes and raing cars, not on foot!”
― Elsa Morante, History: A Novel