Salvatore Quasimodo (1901–1972)
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A propos de l'auteur
Born in Sicily and trained as an engineer, Quasimodo was brought into Italian literary circles by his brother-in-law Elio Vittorini, who drew him to Florence and introduced him to Umberto Saba, Eugenio Montale, and other contributors to the modernist journal Solaria. In the late 1930s, Quasimodo afficher plus gave up engineering for journalism and literature, becoming editor in chief of the weekly Il Tempo and professor of Italian literature in Milan. His poetic life was divided into a hermetic period that lasted through World War II and a period of open commitment to social-humanistic causes that lasted until his death. To the first period belong the volumes Waters and Lands (1930), Sunken Oboe (1932), and Erato and Apollyon (1936), which together with the "new poems" written after 1936, were collected in And It Is Suddenly Evening (1942). The collection is characterized by what has been called Quasimodo's "poetics of the word"---a genuine hermeticism that contrasts with the "bareness" of Montale's effort to strip away ornamentation and with Ungaretti's discursive "imaginings." In creating a "myth of Sicily," Quasimodo sought its roots in the ancient Greek lyric poets and in the Roman poets closest to them, like Catullus and Virgil. That took him into his second poetic period, of disillusionment with his Edenlike mythical image of Sicily, expressed in the volumes Day after Day (1947), Life Is No Dream (1949), and The False and True (1956), followed later by The Incomparable Land (1958) and To Give and to Have (1966). He was a translator of Ovid, Shakespeare, Moliere, Ezra Pound and E. E. Cummings. When he received the Nobel Prize in 1959, it was especially noted that his best poetry expresses "with classic fire . . . the tragic experience of life in our time." (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Séries
Œuvres de Salvatore Quasimodo
Nobel Prize Library: Perse, Pirandello, Pontoppidan, Quasimodo (1971) — Contributeur — 25 exemplaires
La terra impareggiabile 5 exemplaires
Gedichten 4 exemplaires
Dikter 4 exemplaires
Obra poètica 3 exemplaires
El poeta, el polític i altres assaigs 3 exemplaires
PETRARCA e il sentimento della solitudine 2 exemplaires
Lirica d'amore italiana. Dalle origini ai giorni nostri 2 exemplaires
Poesie scelte 2 exemplaires
Per conoscere Quasimodo 2 exemplaires
Poesias escolhidas 2 exemplaires
Oboe sommerso 2 exemplaires
Il Vangelo secondo Giovanni 2 exemplaires
Poesias 2 exemplaires
''PEQUENA HISTORIA'' 1 exemplaire
LV: Salvatore Quasimodo. Saggi. L'amore di Galatea. 1 exemplaire
Dare e avere, 1959-1965 1 exemplaire
A colpo omicida e altri scritti 1 exemplaire
Leonida di Taranto 1 exemplaire
Leonida di Taranto 1 exemplaire
Pesmi / Acque e terre, Oboe sommerso, Erato e Apollion, Poesie, Giorno dopo giorno, La vita non e sogno, Il fakso e… 1 exemplaire
Das Leben ist kein Traum Ausgewählte Gedichte. Italienisch u. dt. Übertragung u. Nachw. von Gianni Selvani 1 exemplaire
Saggi- L'amore di Galatea. 1 exemplaire
Salvatore Quasimodo legszebb versei 1 exemplaire
Dare e avere: 1959-1965 1 exemplaire
Poesias Escolhidas - - Volume 55 1 exemplaire
Vita, poetica, opere scelte 1 exemplaire
L'arte del silenzio. La danza, la poesia, l'immagine 1 exemplaire
(Lo scultore ) Francesco Messina 1 exemplaire
obra completa 1 exemplaire
25 poemas 1 exemplaire
The poet and the politician,: And other essays (Crosscurrents; modern critiques) (1964) 1 exemplaire
Mòdica alguns poemes de Salvatore Quasimodo : miscel·lània de textos dedicada al poeta (2008) 1 exemplaire
Opere 1 exemplaire
LIRICI MINORI DEL XIII E XIV SECOLO 1 exemplaire
Opere scelte 1 exemplaire
Poesia italiana del dopoguerra 1 exemplaire
Un anno di 365 1 exemplaire
Vento a Tindari 1 exemplaire
Poezje 1 exemplaire
Dall'antologia palatina 1 exemplaire
Tragici greci tradotti da Salvatore Quasimodo 1 exemplaire
Den makelause jord : dikt i utval 1 exemplaire
Todos los poemas 1 exemplaire
Con la hierba, sobre el corazón: Antología poética de Salvatore Quasimodo (Poesia) (Spanish… (2017) 1 exemplaire
Poemas 1 exemplaire
Život není sen : Výbor z básnického díla 1920-1958 1 exemplaire
Poèmes 1 exemplaire
Obra poética premi Nobel 1959 1 exemplaire
Plegaria 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (1998) — Contributeur — 450 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Quasimodo, Salvatore
- Autres noms
- QUASIMODO, Salvatore
- Date de naissance
- 1901-08-20
- Date de décès
- 1968-06-14
- Lieu de sépulture
- Cimitero Monumentale, Milan, Italy
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Italy
- Lieu de naissance
- Modica, Italy
- Lieu du décès
- Naples, Italy
- Professions
- poet
critic
translator
art critic - Relations
- Quasimodo, Alessandro (son)
Vittorini, Elio (brother in law) - Organisations
- Italian Communist Party
- Prix et distinctions
- Nobel Prize (Literature, 1959)
Membres
Critiques
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Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 92
- Aussi par
- 8
- Membres
- 694
- Popularité
- #36,476
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 10
- ISBN
- 64
- Langues
- 9
- Favoris
- 6
Quasimodo was born in Sicily, the son of a railway worker, in 1901. As a small child, he experienced the aftermath of the terrible 1908 Messina earthquake: as he describes in a late poem dedicated to his father, the family lived in a freight car in the ruins of the station whilst his father helped to keep the trains moving.
As a young man, he worked as a surveyor in various parts of Italy: many of his early poems are semi-nostalgic evocations of the Sicilian landscape as recalled from exile in the north. They are often extremely beautiful lyrics, but very much in the style of that time, inward-looking and static. This all changes with the poems published after the end of World War II (but often written earlier), when Quasimodo starts to engage with the horrors of that part of Italian and European history. It seems likely that those poems were the ones that caught the mood of the times and the attention of the Nobel committee. And the very tangible anger, grief and sympathy expressed there still have a pretty powerful impact even now. There’s also some very appealing stuff in his later poems, particularly “Al padre” where he remembers his father, and “Nell’Isola”, where he imagines a craftsman building a house in Sicily.
This short Dutch anthology, with about seventy poems from across Quasimodo’s whole career, was probably a sufficient dose to get a good impression of what he was about. The parallel translations are rather plain and literal, but they stick closely to the structure of the Italian text and are thus very useful if you’re trying to make sense of the Italian. The introduction, summarising Quasimodo’s life and work in about 20 pages, is also very handy.… (plus d'informations)