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Cartoline dal paradiso : drogue, invasion et autodestruction chez Elsa Morante

Cahiers d’Études Italiennes February 10, 2026 Marie Fabre

The importance of drugs as a theme in the second half of Elsa Morante’s work is rarely emphasized. Beginning with the author’s existential and political turn in the 1960s, a decade that saw her experiment with a series of sedatives and psychedelics, drugs and addiction become omnipresent in the lives of some of the key characters in her novels and short stories. This article focuses on the...