Elsa Morante

Japanese: モランテ - もらんて(英語表記)Elsa Morante
Elsa Morante

Italian female writer. Born in Rome. First wife of Alberto Moravia. Her short story collection "The Secret Game" (1941) gave her a lucky start. Her long epic "Fiction and Magic" (1948), which expanded "magic realism based on autobiographical elements" into a world of fable that transcends reality, won the Viareggio Prize and solidified her position as a representative writer after World War II. Her works include "Arturo's Island" (1957, winner of the Strega Prize in 1959, translated into Japanese as "Forbidden Love's Island"), a long epic depiction of Nazi-occupied Italy, "History" (1974, published in an unusually low-priced edition from the start for the sake of many readers, which caused a stir), and her poetry collection "The World Saved by Boys" (1968), all of which are powerfully written from the perspective of the small and weak. Her final work, Araceli (1983), fully expresses her mythical and baroque imaginary world, but is also full of deeply personal anguish about death, madness and alienated love. She subsequently attempted suicide, and died in a hospital in Rome, partially paralyzed by the aftereffects of the trauma.

[Noriko Mochizuki]

"The Island of Forbidden Love" (translated by Akio Okubo, 1964, Kawade Shobo Shinsha)

[References] | Moravia

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

イタリアの女流作家。ローマに生まれる。アルベルト・モラービアの最初の妻。短編集『秘密の遊戯』(1941)で幸運なスタートを切る。「自伝的要素を基盤とした魔法のリアリズム」を、現実を超えた寓話(ぐうわ)の世界にまで拡大させた長編大作『虚構と魔法』(1948)でビアレッジョ賞を獲得、第二次世界大戦後の代表的作家としての地位を固めた。『アルトゥーロの島』(1957。59年ストレーガ賞受賞作。邦訳『禁じられた恋の島』)、ナチス占領下のイタリアを叙事詩的に描いた長編『歴史』(1974。多くの読者のために、最初から異例の廉価版で刊行し、話題をよんだ)、詩集『少年たちに救われた世界』(1968)など、いずれも小さな、弱い者からの視線を強靭(きょうじん)に貫いている。最後の作品となった『アラチェーリ』(1983)は彼女の神話的・バロック的想像世界を余すところなく伝えるが、きわめて個人的な死と狂気、疎外された愛という苦悩に満ちたものである。その後自殺を図り、その後遺症のための半身不随のまま、ローマの病院で生涯を終えた。

[望月紀子]

『大久保昭男訳『禁じられた恋の島』(1964・河出書房新社)』

[参照項目] | モラービア

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