 Award-winning Italian novelist Elsa Morante captures the events of an era in a journal style that grounds her seminal work of long fiction, History. The novel opens with a kind of year in review and an ominous citation that the atomic century has begun. In each of the dozen or so entries that set the stage for the novel, the focal point is the war that is coming to every part of the world, and will continue to come like a great tide that ebbs and flows but never ceases. Morante's persistent selection of global events provides an invasive backdrop for the novel. |
