Authors: Elsa Morante,Lily Tuck,William Weaver
Tags: #Literature & Fiction, #Contemporary, #Genre Fiction, #Historical, #Military, #War, #Literary, #Contemporary Fiction, #Historical Fiction, #Italian, #Literary Fiction
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HISTORY A NOVEL
ELSA MORANTE
Translated from the Italian by William Weaver
AVENTURA
The Vintage Library of Contemporary World Literature
VINTAGE BOOKS A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE NEW YORK
First Aventura Edition, March
1984
Translation Copyright©
1977
by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. All rights reserved under International and
Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. This translation ori published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. in
1977.
Originally published in Italian as
La Storia: Romanzo
by Giulio Einaudi Editore, S.P.A., Turi Copyright©
1974
by Elsa Morante and Giulio Einaudi Editore, S.P.A., Torino.
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Morante, Elsa,
1916-
History.
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Aventura-the Vintage library of contemporary world literature
)
Translation of: La Storia.
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Por el anal/abeto a quien escribo
There is no word in the human language capable of consoling the guinea pigs who do not know
the reason for their death.
(A sun> of Hiroshima)
. . thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes
for so it seemed good in thy sight.
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