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Arturo’s Island

novel by Morante

Also known as: “L’isola di Arturo”

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discussed in biography

In Elsa Morante
…novel, L’isola di Arturo (1957; Arturo’s Island), examines a boy’s growth from childhood dreams to the painful disillusions of adulthood. This novel, for which she won the Strega Prize, is notable for its delicate lyricism and its mingling of realistic detail with an air of unreality; it is often compared…
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