When an Italian booktuber (Bruno) offers some recommendations for great Italian authors to check out, I am going to pay attention. More to the point, perhaps, Morante’s character, though alarmingly single-minded, is yet also open to vagrant impressions he knows not how to harness. Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox. The Aracoeli of the title is the narrator's deceased mother, who grew up in a small Spanish town before marrying an upper-class Italian navy ensign.

Instead of the usual inflated prose (most important book...) you find the following: "The first time I read Aracoeli, I found it almost pointlessly disturbing and shocking. Please try again. There was a problem loading your book clubs. "―Kirkus Review. Your email address will not be published. For each hidden truth we sense but cannot penetrate there is an “ancient law” that decrees the limits of our understanding. The Aracoeli of the title is the narrator's deceased mother, who grew up in a small Spanish town before marrying an upper-class Italian navy ensign. Please try your request again later. A melancholic novel about an aging man attempting to recover his past and get his life on track.

Frequently absent, the father was thus a. Aracoeli: a novel / Elsa Morante ; translated from the Italian by William Weaver Morante, Author: Morante, Elsa, approximately ; Audience: General . That is the risk Morante deliberately invites in Aracoeli.

Something went wrong. Please try again. Frequently absent, the father was thus a. Aracoeli: a novel / Elsa Morante ; translated from the Italian by William Weaver Morante, Author: Morante, Elsa, approximately ; Audience: General . But her own inveterate feeling for tenderness and beauty is also unmistakable, as unmistakable as her desire to get to the bottom of something she wishes with all her heart to encompass.

Frequently absent, the father was thus a. Aracoeli: a novel / Elsa Morante ; translated from the Italian by William Weaver Morante, Author: Morante, Elsa, approximately ; Audience: General . Strano...se volevo un usato andavo al libraccio... Bel romanzo e buone edizione e rilegatura.

Scrittura magistrale, ricca di descrizioni che sa di classicone. I had high hopes for the book, but my hectic life and need to read things quickly submarined those hopes. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. These are not, we feel, novels for the faint of heart. The reader is ... Read full review. Aracoeli was the mother, Spanish and naive and married to Eugenio, an officer in the Italian navy.

Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. Of course, a work shaped and controlled by an obsessive outlook and a corresponding rhetoric may come to seem monotonous. Aracoeli―Elsa Morante's final novel―is the story of an aging man's attempt to recover the past and get his life on track in the process. Our most recent release—which shipped to subscribers last week—is Elsa Morante’s Aracoeli, her last novel, and by far her darkest. To see what your friends thought of this book. Aracoeli was the mother, Spanish and naive and married to Eugenio, an officer in the Italian navy. Il problema è il libro che pur essendo nuovo (si capisce dalle pagine intonse) ha la copertina rovinata e scura.