Elsa Morante Knihy

Veľkolepý román svetoznámej talianskej prozaičky Elsy Morante patrí medzi najvýznamnejšie diela európskej prózy 20. storočia. Vojna, častá téma tejto doby, je v románe stvárnená netradične. Autorkin pohľad na moderné dejiny je rezignovaný, pričom história sa zdá byť bezútešná a fatálne nenapraviteľná. Morante vyjadruje, že „vo veľkom svete niet veľa noviniek“ a že história sa riadi nemenným princípom: jedni vládnu, druhí slúžia. Tieto slová rámcujú dielo a naznačujú, že niet vykúpenia; pre zatratených neexistuje hranica medzi vojnou a mierom, každý čas ich odnáša do zabudnutia. Elsa Morante stavia na týchto základoch mrakodrap, ktorý spája temný suterén s nadoblačnými výšinami. Na „protirečenia“ v historických úvodoch a „mýty“ sa pozerá kriticky, pričom odhaľuje „populistické“ predkladanie a „fatalistické“ videnie ľudského údelu. Tieto postoje sú súčasťou premyslenej osnovy, ktorá sa zaoberá vyšším poslaním človeka a jeho osudom presahujúcim dejinné činy. Dielo získava odolnosť voči času, podobne ako romány Tolstého a Cervantesa či eposy Danteho a Homéra, pričom sa stáva hlbokým posolstvom, nie len svedectvom o svojom období.

Román vypráví o nelehkém dospívání chlapce na rodném ostrově Procida poblíž Neapole v třicátých letech minulého století. Arturo žije v barbarském neposkvrněném světě mezi skalisky a plážemi, zcela odříznutém od civilizace. Žije v myšlenkách na matku, která zemřela při porodu, a bezmezně obdivuje otce, jehož má za hrdinu. Od chvíle, kdy do jeho života vstoupí otcova mladší přítelkyně Nunziata, neví, co si počít se svými pocity a zmítá se v mladickém hledání první lásky. Arturovo prozření je bolestné, a nakonec se rozhodne tento bájný a mýtický ostrov opustit. Ač od prvního italského vydání uběhlo více než šedesát let, tato výjimečná próza stále oslovuje čtenáře svou epičností a pravdivými emocemi.

An aging man attempts to recover the past and get his life back on track in the process. His deceased mother, Aracoeli, came from a small Spanish town and married an upper class Italian navy ensign. The idyllic years she spends with her only son, Mauel, are shattered when she contracts an incurable disease and becomes a nymphomaniac. Now 43, Manuel is a unattractive, self loathing, recovering drug addict who works in a dead end job at a small publishing house. He decides to travel back to Spain to search for traces of his mother.

A representative text of a milieu marked by student protests and aspirations for moral and political renewal. First published in Italian in 1968, The World Saved by Kids was written in the aftermath of deep personal change and in the context of what Elsa Morante called the "great youth movement exploding against the funereal machinations of the organized contemporary world." Morante believed that it was only the youth who could truly hear her revolutionary call. With the fiftieth anniversary of the tumultuous events of 1968 approaching, there couldn't be a more timely moment for this first English translation of Morante's work to appear. Greeted by Antonio Porta as one of the most important books of its decade, The World Saved by Kids showcases Morante's true mastery of tone, rhythm, and imagery as she works elegy, parody, storytelling, song, and more into an act of linguistic magic through which Gramsci and Rimbaud, Christ and Antigone, Mozart and Simone Weil, and a host of other figures join the sassy, vulnerable neighborhood kids in a renewal of the word's timeless, revolutionary power to explore and celebrate life's insoluble paradox. Morante gained international recognition and critical acclaim for her novels History, Arturo's Island, and Aracoeli, and The World Saved By Kids may be her best book and the one that most closely represents her spirit.

Young Arturo grows up in near-isolation on the island of Procida in the Bay of Naples. His mother died in childbirth and his wayward father, who left him as a child in the care of a servant on the island, returns only sporadically. Cut off from the island community, Arturo exists almost entirely in solitude: he roams the island with his beloved dog, sails in his boat and reads tales of virtuous heroes and adventurers whom he imagines resemble his father. The boy's world is upended when his father arrives from Naples with his new wife Nunziata, who at sixteen is only a few years older than Arturo. Their presence shatters his childhood idyll, awakening passionate feelings and drawing the family towards painful conflict

"Lies and Sorcery" is the first unabridged English translation of Elsa Morante's electrifying 1948 debut novel. It follows Elisa, an orphan raised on fairy tales, as she uncovers her family's tumultuous past. Blending intrigue, deception, and humor, the novel celebrates female imagination and the power of storytelling.

A representative text of a milieu marked by student protests and aspirations for moral and political renewal. First published in Italian in 1968, The World Saved by Kids was written in the aftermath of deep personal change and in the context of what Elsa Morante called the "great youth movement exploding against the funereal machinations of the organized contemporary world." Morante believed that it was only the youth who could truly hear her revolutionary call. With the fiftieth anniversary of the tumultuous events of 1968 approaching, there couldn't be a more timely moment for this first English translation of Morante's work to appear. Greeted by Antonio Porta as one of the most important books of its decade, The World Saved by Kids showcases Morante's true mastery of tone, rhythm, and imagery as she works elegy, parody, storytelling, song, and more into an act of linguistic magic through which Gramsci and Rimbaud, Christ and Antigone, Mozart and Simone Weil, and a host of other figures join the sassy, vulnerable neighborhood kids in a renewal of the word's timeless, revolutionary power to explore and celebrate life's insoluble paradox. Morante gained international recognition and critical acclaim for her novels History, Arturo's Island, and Aracoeli, and The World Saved By Kids may be her best book and the one that most closely represents her spirit.

In questo romanzo, la maestra Ida vive a Roma le esperienze del fascismo, della persecuzione degli ebrei, della guerra e del dopoguerra, insieme ai suoi due figli. Giuseppe, il figlio minore, è un bambino speciale. Elsa Morante crea un vivido ritratto della città e dei suoi abitanti, tra cui piccoli borghesi, partigiani e anarchici.

Dei moltissimi racconti scritti nella sua vita, Elsa Morante presenta qui unascelta disposta in ordine cronologico. Nei dodici racconti di questa inquietavicenda predestinata, si potrà seguire, meglio ancora che nei romanzi, il temadrammatico e affascinante che sempre ha accompagnato la scrittrice e che prende forma soprattutto nel breve romanzo finale che dà il titolo alla raccolta:il rapporto viscerale madre e figlio.