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Elsa Morante’s La Storia (History) is a novel about the harrowing realities of life in Rome during the Second World War. The principal female character, Ida Mancuso, a half Jewish primary school teacher is described in William Riviere’s introduction to the Penguin translation as “too simple of spirit to read the newspapers in order to find out the official line on quite how damned or not damned her children and she may be on account of their mixed blood”.
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Flannery, J.A., Smith, K.M. (2014). Centro Culturale Elsa Morante. In: Eco-Library Design. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4078-5_4
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