L'isola di Arturo by Elsa Morante7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Remote or near, every human society is discovered as a tormented field, where a squad performs violence and a throng suffers it Historiography, no matter how much it explores, finds everywhere the same, unceasing scandal. Glancing through any summary of World History, one discovers immediately that the vast course of human events, despite its upheaval and unevenness, displays a landscape of obsessive monotony. These words already define the theme which the novel then develops and orchestrates. ![]() “In the original Italian Edition, this novel, under its title History, bears the following subtitle: A scandal that has lasted for ten thousand years. When the novel was published in English in 1977, Morante was so upset that the American edition lacked a warning paragraph, that she tried to rectify it by consenting to a simultaneous edition for the Franklyn Library First Edition Society in which she wrote a long message to the members of FFE Society. To precisely which scandal is she referring to? “A scandal that has lasted for ten thousand years” ![]()
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