Elsa Morante And so I come back girl. I recognize mouth stretched and color grumpy eyes still wet with mud heavenly the inability to cry the soft fist animal that does not leave the grip the happiness of his bare chest under the apron of the thigh school uncontaminated from the heat of July belly incest and child. for ambiguity visitation the body of love is ready. will rise And the prayer of leave suburban spelled out in processions. The barbaric scourge will shuffle his maiden fevers with infections of the district humiliated. Chiagneva Durme more about myself ... mandolins be massacred in the Grand Guignol childish revolutions, herbs and killing of family, when a midnight swearing in adoring, kite in the shape of the star will come off the wagon boot. or adolescents, fools of God! also ruffled pirate prostitution Sundays will be childish. poem from the book: The World
saved by children and other poems Part Two THE COMEDY OF CHEMICAL
is not always necessary to give logical connection when talking about poetry or poets looking for relationship between text and author. Poetry is the poet and the writer and Heritage when it is in the books. The connection, of course, is by nature with the author, but sometimes it's nice to enjoy the text without having to force things, "dismount." Giordan Elsa Morante: Born in Rome, at No 7 Via Felice Anier, then spent his childhood in the neighborhood of Testaccio. Illegitimate daughter of a Jewish teacher (Irma Poggibonsi, native of Modena) and a postal clerk (Francesco Lo Monaco) at birth was recognized by Augusto Morante, husband of the mother and counselor in a juvenile correctional institutions, with whom he grew along with brothers Aldo small, Marcello (1916-2005, also a writer) and Maria (first brother, Mario, died an infant before she was born).
The Morante began writing rhymes and young children stories, poems and short stories, that from 1933 until the beginning of World War II, were published gradually, thanks to the advice of the literary critic Frank Bruno, that launched in 1935, many magazines of various kinds, among which are mentioned Corriere dei Piccoli, Rome, Meridian, The Rights of the school (on which, among other things, the story came out in 29 episodes long knock at the door ), and especially today (directed by Mario Pannunzio and Arrigo Benedetti, on which he also wrote under the pseudonyms Carrera and Antonio Renzo or sometimes Lorenzo King James Version).
His first book was a collection of some of these stories of young people, the secret game, published by Garzanti in 1941 which was followed in 1942 by a children's book, entitled The wonderful adventures of the braids Cater (from she explained and then rewritten in 1959 under the title The adventures of Catherine).
In 1936 he met the writer Alberto Moravia, who married 14 April 1941, attended and met with the greatest Italian writers and thinkers of the time, most often including Pier Paolo Pasolini (whose film Accattone makes an appearance and the which traveled to India), Umberto Saba, Attilio Bertolucci and Giorgio Bassani, Sandro Penna and Enzo Siciliano.
Towards the end of World War II, to escape the reprisals of the Nazis, Morante and Moravia left now occupied Rome and took refuge in Fondi, a village in the province of Latina, a few miles from the sea. This part of southern Italy appears frequently in the works subsequent narratives of two writers, especially in Elsa Morante's novel speaks of History.
During this time he began to translate the diary (Scrapbook) by Katherine Mansfield, whose influence is sometimes recognizable in his later works. After the war, Morante and Moravia met the American translator William Weaver, who helped them reach the American public.
Elsa Morante's first novel was published Lies and sorcery, published by Einaudi in 1948 by Natalia Ginzburg, and which won the Premio Viareggio. The novel was then published in the U.S. under the title House of Liars in 1951 (translated by Adrienne Foulke and Andrew Chiappe interest to William Weaver, who then translate itself Aracoeli and History).
The next novel, Arturo's Island, was released in Italy in 1957 with great success by audiences and critics (it won the Strega Prize). It was made into a film of the same name, directed by Damiano Damiani.
During the sixties, the writer thought at length about his fiction, rejecting and destroying much of what he had written in the meantime, with the exception of a few things, including poetry Adventure (previously published in "Dark Shops" in 1951).
In this period he attended without Moravia, including Luchino Visconti and the New York painter Bill Morrow (1936-1962, who committed suicide), the critic and the actor Cesare Garboli Carlo Cecchi (the last two then it works its curators' I Meridians' of Mondadori).
In 1958 came at Longanesi 16 poems under the title Alibi. In 1963 Einaudi published a second collection of short stories: The shawl Andalusian (where it merged some of those already published by Garzanti). The work Next, the world saved by children that is a mixture of poetry, songs and dialogues, appeared in 1968.
Morante and Moravia while they were separated in 1961. Elsa continued to write, though rarely, in those years working on a novel that never saw the light without the consolations of religion. The story, set in Rome during the Second World War, was released in 1974 (for his choice directly in paperback in the series "The Ostrich") and had international fame, but also received a heavy attack by some critics. Luigi Comencini drew a TV drama in 1986, played by Claudia Cardinale. Editor of "The Story" at the publishing house Einaudi, was Elena De Angeli.
The latest novel by Elsa Morante was Aracoeli, published in 1982. Ammalatasi following a fracture of the femur, he attempted suicide in 1983. In 1984 he received the Prix Médicis for Aracoeli. He died in 1985 following a heart attack after a second surgery.
sequelae, apart from the two volumes of works mentioned above, were also collected, edited by Irene Babb and Carlo Cecchi, Tales of the forgotten, volume 14, which incorporates the stories of the game excluded from secret shawl Andalusian and other dispersed magazines, and short childhood fantasies and a novel.
source of the biography: Wikipedia
