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Ganadora del Premio Strega, la gran novela que dejó abrumada a Elena Ferrante: Elsa Morante fue mi maestra. [...] Te hechiza.Inolvidable. Juan TallónQuizá la mejor novela erótica del siglo XX. CulturamasUn mazazo que tiene el poder de una maldición. Dwight Garner, The New York TimesEl hombre se llama Wilhelm; camina ensimismado y su hijo Arturo le sigue como una sombra, atento a cada movimiento de su héroe, de quien imagina aventuras y proezas sin fin. Los dos viven en un antiguo convento, un caserón algo apartado del pueblo, donde antes se oían rezos y ahora reinan el silencio y la suciedad.Arturo crece rodeado de libros y malas hierbas mientras su padre se ausenta a menudo sin dar razones, hasta que un día regresa con Nunziata, su nueva esposa, y entre los dos jóvenes se crea una complicidad extraña, casi a espaldas de Wilhelm, que es padre y marido, pero vive en la cuerda floja, con la mirada puesta más allá de la isla de Prócida, más allá de Ná

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A representative text of a milieu marked by student protests and aspirations for moral and political renewal. First published in Italian in 1968, The World Saved by Kids was written in the aftermath of deep personal change and in the context of what Elsa Morante called the “great youth movement exploding against the funereal machinations of the organized contemporary world.” Morante believed that it was only the youth who could truly hear her revolutionary call. With the fiftieth anniversary of the tumultuous events of 1968 approaching, there couldn’t be a more timely moment for this first English translation of Morante’s work to appear. Greeted by Antonio Porta as one of the most important books of its decade, The World Saved by Kids showcases Morante’s true mastery of tone, rhythm, and imagery as she works elegy, parody, storytelling, song, and more into an act of linguistic magic through which Gramsci and Rimbaud, Christ and Antigone, Mozart and Simone Weil, and a host of other figures join the sassy, vulnerable neighborhood kids in a renewal of the word’s timeless, revolutionary power to explore and celebrate life’s insoluble paradox. Morante gained international recognition and critical acclaim for her novels History, Arturo’s Island, and Aracoeli, and The World Saved By Kids may be her best book and the one that most closely represents her spirit.

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In this little-known classic of Italian literature, young Arturo grows up in near-isolation on the island of Procida in the Bay of Naples. His mother died in childbirth and his wayward father, who left him as a child in the care of a servant on the island, returns only sporadically. Cut off from the island community, Arturo exists almost entirely in solitude: he roams the island with his beloved dog, sails in his boat and reads tales of virtuous heroes and adventurers whom he imagines resemble his father. The boy's world is upended when his father arrives from Naples with his new wife Nunziata, who at sixteen is only a few years older than Arturo. Their presence shatters his childhood idyll, awakening passionate feelings and drawing the family towards painful conflict. Arturo's Island is a moving and dramatic portrayal of the loss of childhood idealism and the inescapable force of desire.

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