Elsa Morante's point of view about the Shoah in La Storia
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Abstract
In her third novel, "La Storia", Elsa Morante describes the twentieth-century, considering the Jewish genocide a fundamental moment. The first part analyses the symbolic and the mythological function of the extermination camp, the second part focuses on the textual analysis of the historical reconstruction.