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Modern Italy
Journal of Modern Italian Studies
RIVISTA DI STUDI ITALIANI
Anno V , n° 2, Dicembre 1987 ( Contributi ) pag. 51-71
'SHEHERAZADE' AND OTHER 'ALIBIS':
ELSA MORANTE'S VICTIMS OF LOVE
ROCCO CAPOZZI
University of Toronto,
Toronto, Ontario
The writer and critic Carlo Sgorlon after stating that Italy, throughout the ages, has been rich in literati but poor in writers, affirms that Elsa Morante is one of the few true narrators of modern Italian literature1. There is no need to indulge here in a long list of superlatives regarding Morante's great talent for writing or for her natural and unusual zest for fabulation, nor shall we resort to a census of critics who have appreciated the author, a list which usually includes Gyorgy Lukàcs' statement that Morante with Menzogna e sortilegio (trans. House of Liars)2 proves to be one of the greatest narrators of all time, and Michel David's assertion that Arturo's Island is the most beautiful novel of contemporary Italian literature, if only to repeat perhaps the
cliché that Elsa Morante has to some extent been better appreciated outside Italy than at home. [...]
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