La Casa Dei Doganieri

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Bloodaxe Books, 1990 - Poetry - 223 pages
Italian poems with parallel English versions by Jeremy Reed. A Poetry Book Society Translation Award winner. Montale won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975. Born in Genoa in 1889, he achieved sudden fame during the 1920s when his pessimistic poetry caught the mood of Italy in the culturally sterile years following WWI.

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da MOVIMENTI from MOVEMENTS
20
da MERIGGI E OMBRE from NOONS AND SHADOWS
49
Lindau
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About the author (1990)

Eugenio Montale was born in Genoa, Italy on October 12, 1896. Largely self-educated, he was an infantry officer in World War I and then became a spectator, rather than an activist, during the 20 years of fascism. He lived in Genoa for his first 30 years, where he started his career as a journalist, and then moved to Florence, where he worked first for a publishing house and then as a reference librarian. After World War II, he settled down in Milan as literary and music critic and special correspondent for Italy's leading newspaper, Il Corriere della Sera. He is often considered to be one of the founders of the poetic school known as hermeticism, an Italian variant of the French symbolist movement. His books of poems and essays include Cuttlefish Bones (1925), Occasions (1939), The Storm and Other Things (1956), and Diary of 1971 and 1972 (1973). He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975. He died on September 12, 1981 in Milan. In 1996, a work appeared called Posthumous Diary (Diario Postumo) that purported to have been constructed by Montale before his death with the help of the young poet Annalisa Cima. Critical reaction at first varied, with some believing that Cima had forged the collection outright, though now the work is generally considered authentic.

Bibliographic information

TitleLa Casa Dei Doganieri
AuthorsEugenio Montale, Jeremy Reed
EditorJeremy Reed
Translated byJeremy Reed
PublisherBloodaxe Books, 1990
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedApr 2, 2008
ISBN1852241004, 9781852241001
Length223 pages
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Poetry / European / Italian
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