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Lies and Sorcery
Lies and Sorcery
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An Italian master's magnum opus about three generations of women and their unhappy marriages, now in the first-ever unabridged English translation.
An Italian master's magnum opus about three generations of women, now in the first-ever unabridged English translation.
Elsa Morante is one of the titansof twentieth-century literature-Natalia Ginzburg said she was the writer of her own generation that she most admired-and yet her work remains little known in the United States. Written during World War II, Morante's celebrated first novel, Lies and Sorcery, is in the grand tradition of Stendhal, Tolstoy, and Proust, spanning the lives of three generations of wildly eccentric women.
The story is set in Sicily and told by Elisa, orphaned young and raised by a "fallen woman." For years Elisa has lived in an imaginary world of her own; now, however, her guardian has died, and the young woman feels that she must abandon her fantasy life to confront the truth of her family's tortured and dramatic history. Elisa is a seductive, if less than reliable,spinner of stories, and the reader is drawn into atale of secrets, intrigue, and treachery, which, as it proceeds, is increasingly revealed to bean exploration of a legacy of political and social injustice. Throughout, Morante's elegant writing-andher drive to get at the heart of her characters' complex relationships andall-too self-destructive behavior-holds us spellbound.
An Italian master's magnum opus about three generations of women, now in the first-ever unabridged English translation.
Elsa Morante is one of the titansof twentieth-century literature-Natalia Ginzburg said she was the writer of her own generation that she most admired-and yet her work remains little known in the United States. Written during World War II, Morante's celebrated first novel, Lies and Sorcery, is in the grand tradition of Stendhal, Tolstoy, and Proust, spanning the lives of three generations of wildly eccentric women.
The story is set in Sicily and told by Elisa, orphaned young and raised by a "fallen woman." For years Elisa has lived in an imaginary world of her own; now, however, her guardian has died, and the young woman feels that she must abandon her fantasy life to confront the truth of her family's tortured and dramatic history. Elisa is a seductive, if less than reliable,spinner of stories, and the reader is drawn into atale of secrets, intrigue, and treachery, which, as it proceeds, is increasingly revealed to bean exploration of a legacy of political and social injustice. Throughout, Morante's elegant writing-andher drive to get at the heart of her characters' complex relationships andall-too self-destructive behavior-holds us spellbound.
- Dimensions: 12.78 x 4.32 x 20.24 cm
- Language: English
- Print length: 800 pages
- Item weight: 1.05 kg
- Book Type: Paperback
- ISBN-10: 1681376849
- ISBN-13: 978-1681376844
- Publication date: 24 October 2023
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