Volume 24, Number 7 · April 28, 1977
Melancholic and Magic History
By Stephen Spender
History: A Novel
by Elsa Morante, translated by William Weaver
Knopf, 561 pp., $10.95
Over ten years ago, at the time of a PEN Club conference held in Tokyo, I traveled for a few days through Japan together with Alberto Moravia, the husband of Elsa Morante. One day, looking out of the train window at the brilliantly sunlit fields and sea—green and blue shining silk—Moravia said in tones of profound melancholy: 'After all, it is a beautiful world.'
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