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House of Liars (Italian Menzogna e sortilegio) or Lies and Sorcery (2003 translation) is a novel by the Italian writer Elsa Morante published in 1948, set in Southern Italy at the turn of the 20th century, describing a family's escape from increasingly dire financial and social circumstances into wishful thinking and delusions.
Nov 8, 2023 · The Novelist Who Inspired Elena Ferrante. In the almost eight hundred pages that make up “Lies and Sorcery,” Elsa Morante wrote about women’s lives without apology or fear of ugliness. By...
House of liars by Elsa Morante. Publication date 1951-01-01 Publisher Harcourt, Brace Collection internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled Contributor Internet ...
Her first novel, 1948's Menzogna e sortilegio, won the Viareggio Prize, and was published in the United States in 1951 as House of Liars. Despite her international success, Morante found the English translation quite disappointing.
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House of Liars. Elsa Morante, Adrienne Foulke (translator) 4.16. 1,598ratings267reviews. Kindle $13.99. La prima apparizione di Menzogna e sortilegio (Premio Viareggio 1948) fu una sorprendente smentita a quanti denunciavano una presunta crisi dell'arte del romanzo.
The cham-ber and the associated domestic spaces reveal their function as a space of fiction in four key works: the short story “Il gioco segreto” (“The Secret Game,” 1937) and the novels Menzogna e sortilegio (House of Liars, 1948), L’isola di Arturo (Arturo’s Island, 1957), and Aracoeli (1982).
