Lies and sorcery
"Though written at the end of the first half of the twentieth century this is essentially a nineteenth century novel written with a twentieth century sensibility. A few things give it away as a twentieth century novel - regular trains, even to remote rural areas, and a gramophone as well as the...
| Main Author: | Morante, Elsa, 1912-1985 (Author) |
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| Other Authors: | McPhee, Jenny (Translator) |
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English Italian |
| Published: |
New York :
New York Review of Books,
2023.
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| Summary: |
"Though written at the end of the first half of the twentieth century this is essentially a nineteenth century novel written with a twentieth century sensibility. A few things give it away as a twentieth century novel - regular trains, even to remote rural areas, and a gramophone as well as the fact that, unlike most nineteenth century novels, none of the main characters survives unscarred. Indeed, most of them die, usually relatively unpleasant deaths. The other unusual feature is that there is no reference whatsoever to political events in the country. Napoleon is mentioned in passing but that is it"-- |
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| Physical Description: |
775 pages |
| ISBN: |
9781681376844 1681376849 |
| Author Notes: |
Jenny McPhee is a translator and the author of the novels The Center of Things , No Ordinary Matter , and A Man of No Moon . For NYRB Classics she translted Curzio Malaparte's The Kremlin Ball and Natalia Ginzburg's Family Lexicon . She is the director for the Center of Applied Liberal Arts at New York University. |