Sandro Penna

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Sandro Penna ( June 12, 1906 in Perugia - January 21, 1977 in Rome ) was an Italian poet and storyteller .

Life

Penna was born in 1906 as the son of a general store in Perugia, central Italy, but after stays in Trieste and Milan lived in Rome from 1929 with his mother († 1966). Regardless of his training as an accountant, he had no permanent job throughout his life and constantly struggled with poverty, as he got older. At first he worked temporarily as a salesman in a bookstore or as a painting dealer; his later main source of income were journalistic odd jobs for daily newspapers and magazines.

Penna mainly wrote poems and some, mostly very short, stories. His first poems appeared in 1932. Penna was openly gay and, like his better-known contemporaries, friends and supporters Umberto Saba and Pier Paolo Pasolini, was fixated on older boys. Many of his narrative poems and prose miniatures are impressionistic sketches or snapshots of an observer strolling through the city, in which boys appear casually in a city-river ambience and then disappear again. It may be because of Penna's preference for boys as the subject of his poems that the public reception of his work has so far been cautious, although Penna is considered one of the most important Italian poets of the 20th century.

Works (selection)

  • Poetry , 1938
  • Appunti , 1950
  • Arrivo al mare , 1955 ( short stories)
  • Una strana gioia di vivere , 1956
  • Poetry , 1957
  • Croce e delizia , 1958
  • Stranezze , 1976
  • Tutte le poesie , 1970
  • Un po 'di febbre , 1973
  • Confuso sogno , posthumously 1980

Works in German

literature

  • Roberto Deidier:  Penna, Alessandro (Sandro). In: Raffaele Romanelli (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 82:  Pazzi-Pia. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2015.
  • Manfred Lentzen: Italian poetry of the 20th century. From the avant-garde of the first decades to a “new inwardness” (= Analecta Romanica. H. 53). Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-465-02654-3 , pp. 247-258.
  • Dörthe Wilken: "E questa festa di parole in me". Intertextuality and intermediality in Sandro Penna's work. Meidenbauer, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-89975-073-X (also: Münster, University, dissertation, 2006).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Penna ( Memento of the original from May 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on internettrash.com (accessed June 7, 2009; also contains three poems by Penna in German) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / internettrash.com
  2. ↑ Manfred Lentzen: "A strange joy to live" - ​​The poetry of Sandro Pennas
  3. ↑ a b Portrait of the author ( Memento of the original from August 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the product page of www.weltbild.de (accessed on June 7, 2009; with a short review on "My boy has light feathers") @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.weltbild.de
  4. ↑ Sandro Penna on www.perlentaucher.de
personal data
SURNAME Penna, Sandro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Penna, Alessandro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian poet and storyteller
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Perugia
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1977
Place of death Rome