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Elena Ferrante’s penname is reportedly an homage to Elsa Morante, one of the most famous Italian women writers of the postwar generation. Ferrante’s books are full of fraught motherhood, and when she won the Elsa Morante prize (a major Italian literary honor) she went searching for “an unequivocally female passage on the mother figure,” to cite in her acceptance speech.
Elsa Morante’s Early Years. Elsa Morante was born in Rome on August 18, 1912. Legally, her father was Augusto Morante, a Sicilian who was a teacher in a reformatory and whose surname Elsa took. Her mother was Irma Poggibonsi Morante, a schoolteacher descended from a Jewish family that came from Emilia (near Modena) in northern Italy.
Jan 1, 2001 · La Storia: Romanzo = History, Elsa Morante History is a novel by Italian author Elsa Morante, generally regarded as her most famous and controversial work. Published in 1974, it narrates the story of a partly Jewish woman, Ida Ramundo, and her two sons Antonio (called "Nino") and Giuseppe ("Useppe") in Rome, during and immediately after the Second World War.
Biography. Born in Rome, Elsa Morante (mohr-AHN-tay) left her parents’ home at the age of eighteen. Within a few years she married the Italian novelist Alberto Moravia, who was eleven years her ...
"Elsa Morante" by Michel David, in Le Monde, 13 April 1968; "Elsa Morante" by Michael Caesar, in Writers and Society in Contemporary Italy, edited by Caesar and Peter Hainsworth, 1986, pp. 211-13; "The Textualization of a Female I. Elsa Morante's Menzogna e sortilegio" by Valeria Finucci, in Italica, 4, 1988, pp. 308-23; "Illusion and Literature in Morante's L'isola di Arturo" by Luisa Guy, in Italica, 1988, pp. 144-53; "Elsa Morante's Aracoeli: The End of a Journey" by Rocco Capozzi, in ...
Elsa Morante (1912–1985) was an influential Italian novelist and poet. She was known for her talent to profoundly explore the human nature and societal dynamics. She also loved cats, a fact that can be observed on her Wikipedia picture. Arturo’s Island (L'isola di Arturo in original) was published in 1957.
La Storia: Romanzo = History, Elsa Morante History is a novel by Italian author Elsa Morante, generally regarded as her most famous and controversial work. Published in 1974, it narrates the story of a partly Jewish woman, Ida Ramundo, and her two sons Antonio (called "Nino") and Giuseppe ("Useppe") in Rome, during and immediately after the Second World War.
