Slammed by Hurricanes
Jenny Turner: Elsa Morante, 20 April 2017
The World Saved by Kids: And Other Epics
by Elsa Morante, translated by Cristina Viti.
Seagull, 319 pp., £19.50, January 2017,978 0 85742 379 5 Show More
by Elsa Morante, translated by Cristina Viti.
Seagull, 319 pp., £19.50, January 2017,
“... cover (a photo of a little boy), a bestseller a second time over. ‘Morante’s subject
,’ Tim Parks wrote in PN Review in the 1980s, ‘is the fairly common one of the child, every child, who grows up, grows away from the beauties and innocence of infancy to the complications and very often horrors of adult life, of consciousness, of ... ”