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Tim Parks: ‘Arturo’s Island’, 15 August 2019
Arturo’s Island
by Elsa Morante, translated by Ann Goldstein.
Pushkin, 370 pp., £9.99, May 2019,978 1 78227 495 7 Show More
by Elsa Morante, translated by Ann Goldstein.
Pushkin, 370 pp., £9.99, May 2019,
“... in the US in Isabel Quigly’s 1959 translation. Now the book appears in a new translation by Ann Goldstein. Comparing their versions, one is struck by how differently two people can read the same text. Morante begins her story with Arturo remembering his childish enthusiasm for his own name. The chapter is called ‘King and Star of the Sky’. Here ... ”