Dacia Maraini

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Dacia Maraini (born November 13, 1936 in Fiesole near Florence ) is an Italian writer .

Life

Dacia Maraini was born in Fiesole near Florence, the daughter of Topazia Alliata , a princess from an impoverished Sicilian noble family , and Fosco Maraini , an anthropologist and Japanologist. In her early childhood, she attended the elite boarding school for girls, Istituto Statale della Ss. Annunziata in Florence.

With a research grant from their father, the family moved to Japan in 1938 , where two more sisters were born. The liberal anti-fascist attitude and the refusal to accept the Japanese military laws were the undoing of the family in 1943 after the Italian surrender. The Marainis were imprisoned in various internment camps for three years .

After the war ended, the family had to return to Italy in 1946. However, poverty forced her not to go back to Florence, but to go to her maternal grandparents in the city of Bagheria in Sicily . The now 13-year-old Dacia Maraini was confronted with the traditional behavior of southern Italy and reacted to it disturbed. During this time she began to put her experiences on paper for the first time.

When the parents separated, Dacia Maraini first lived with her mother in Palermo to finish school with her two sisters. She suffered a lot from the separation from her father, to whom she had a very close relationship, and she decided at the age of 18 to move in with him, who had meanwhile moved from Florence to Rome . Maraini finished school there and began publishing short stories in newspapers and continuing to write. In 1956 she co-founded the magazine Tempo della letteratura and joined Italian literary circles.

The writer Alberto Moravia

In 1959 she married the painter Lucio Pozzi . The marriage ended in divorce after two years; Maraini suffered from the stressful experience of stillbirth. She was introduced to the literary scene through Pozzi - at this point she concentrated mainly on her novels - and joined Gruppo 63 . A little later, she entered into a relationship with the writer Alberto Moravia for almost 20 years , in whose shadow she often stood. She was often viewed by the critics as simply Moravia's writing friend. With the publication of numerous other works in the following years, including short stories, essays , poetry and comedies, Maraini was finally able to assert himself and make a name of his own.

During the 1970s, Maraini joined the women's movement in Italy. She became a member of the Rivolta femminile and the Movimento femminile romano and took part in squatting and demonstrations . This phase is also reflected in Maraini's literature, especially in her feminist novel Donna in guerra (1975).

Dacia Maraini can be seen as the first female writer in Italy who specifically deals with topics such as rape , incest , prostitution or lesbian love from a feminist point of view and who takes up the role of women in different areas of life in her works. Even if Maraini distanced herself a little from feminism in the 1980s, women are still the focus in her current works, and she continues to campaign politically for women's rights and equality .

Since 2006 she has been the editor of the literary magazine Nuovi Argomenti . She has won various literary prizes in Italy and is a juror at the Premio Strega . In 1996 she was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic . In the recent past she has repeatedly been traded as an Italian candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature .

Works

Novels

  • La vacanza. Lerici, Milan 1962.
  • L'età del malessere. Einaudi, Turin 1963.
  • A memoria. Bompiani, Milan 1967.
  • Memorie di una ladra. Bompiani, Milan 1972.
  • Donna in guerra. Einaudi, Turin 1975.
  • Isolina. La donna tagliata a pezzi. A. Mondadori, Milan 1980.
  • Lettere a Marina. Bompiani, Milan 1981.
  • Il treno per Helsinki. Einaudi, Turin 1984.
  • La lunga vita di Marianna Ucrìa. Rizzoli, Milan 1990.
  • Bagheria. Rizzoli, Milan 1993.
    • Bagheria. A childhood in Sicily. Piper, Munich 1997, translation: Marina Kienlechner, ISBN 9783492224154 .
  • Voci. Rizzoli, Milan 1994.
  • Dolce per se. Rizzoli, Milan 1997.
  • Buio. Rizzoli, Milan 1999.
    • Children of darkness. Piper, Munich 2000, translation: Eva-Maria Wagner, ISBN 9783492042024 .
  • La nave per Kobe. Diari giapponesi di mia madre. Rizzoli, Milan 2001.
    • A ship to Kobe. My mother's Japanese diary. Translation Eva-Maria Wagner, Piper, Munich 2003.
  • Colomba. Rizzoli, Milan 2004.
  • Il gioco dell'universo. Dialoghi immaginari tra un padre e una figlia. (with Fosco Maraini) A. Mondadori, Milan 2007.
  • Il treno dell'ultima notte. Rizzoli, Milan 2008.
  • La ragazza di via Maqueda. Rizzoli, Milan 2009.
  • La grande festa. Rizzoli, Milan 2011.
  • L'amore rubato. Rizzoli, Milan 2012
    • Stolen love. Translation: Gudrun Jäger. edition five, Graefelfing 2015, ISBN 9783942374699 .
  • Chiara d'Assisi. Elogio della disoboperza. Rizzoli, Milan 2013.
  • La bambina e il sognatore. Rizzoli, Milan 2015.
    • The girl and the dreamer. Translation: Ingrid Ickler. Folio, Vienna / Bozen 2017, ISBN 9783852567150 .
  • Tre donne. Rizzoli, Milan 2017.
    • Three women. Translation: Ingrid Ickler. Folio, Vienna / Bozen 2019, ISBN 9783852567716 .

stories

  • Mio marito. Bompiani, Milan 1968.
    • Hibernation. Twelve stories. Rotbuch-Verlag, Berlin 1984, translation: Gudrun Jäger, ISBN 9783880222922 (also ud T. Mein Mann. Wagenbach, Berlin 2002).
  • L'uomo tatuato. A. Guida, Naples 1990.
  • La ragazza con la treccia. Viviani, Rome 1994.
  • Mulino, Orlov e Il gatto che si crede pantera. Stampa alternativa, Viterbo 1994.
  • Un sonno senza sogni; Gita in bicicletta a Mongerbino. Drago, Bagheria 2006.
  • Ragazze di Palermo. Corriere della Sera, Milan 2007.
  • with Piera degli Esposti : Storia di Piera . Milan: Bompiani, 1980
    • Story of Piera: a woman finds herself . Translation by Susanne Kranz. Munich: Heyne, 1985 ISBN 978-3-453-35048-9
  • Stolen love. Eight stories. Translation: Gudrun Jäger. Edition Fünf, Graefelfing 2015, ISBN 9783942374699 .

Stories for children

  • Storie di cani per una bambina. 1996.
  • La pecora dolly. 2001.
  • Liguori può ... tu non può. 2001.

Poetry

  • Botta e risposta poetica ... o quasi. With Nicolò Maraini. Tip. editrice dell'Orso, Rome 1960.
  • Crudeltà all'aria aperta. Feltrinelli, Milan 1966.
  • Donne mie. Einaudi, Turin 1974.
  • Mangiami pure. Einaudi, Turin 1978.
  • Dimenticato di dimenticare. 1984.
  • Viaggiando con passo di volpe. 1991.
  • Se amando troppo. 1998.

theatre

  • Il ricatto a teatro e altre commedie. Einaudi, Turin 1970.
  • Viva l'Italia. Einaudi, Turin 1973.
  • La donna perfetta. La Biennale, Venice 1974.
  • La donna perfetta seguito da Il cuore di una vergine. Einaudi, Turin 1975.
  • Don juan Einaudi, Turin 1976.
  • Dialogo di una prostituta con un suo cliente. Con un dibattito sulla decisionse di fare il testo e la preparazione dello spettacolo. Mastrogiacomo-Images 70, Padua 1978.

Scripts

  • Cuore di mamma. Forum, Milan 1969.

Essays

  • Fare teatro. Materiali, testi, interviste. Bompiani, Milan 1974.
  • La bionda, la bruna e l'asino. 1987.
  • Cercando Emma. 1993.
  • Un clandestino a bordo. 1996.
  • I giorni di Antigone - Quaderno di cinque anni. 2006.
  • Sulla mafia. Piccole riflessioni personali Perrone, Rome 2009.
  • Il bambino Alberto. 1986.
    • The boy Alberto. Conversations with Alberto Moravia. The girl and the dreamer. Translation: Sweet Rafalski. Folio, Vienna / Bozen 2017, ISBN 9783923854325 .
  • “Foreword from Dacia Maraini”. In: Pier Paolo Pasolini : The St. Paul . (Original title: San Paolo. 1977) Film script with an introductory foreword by Dacia Maraini about her friendship with Pier Paolo Pasolini, Alberto Moravia and Maria Callas . Translated, ed. and provided with critical footnotes by Dagmar Reichardt and Reinhold Zwick. Schüren Verlag, Marburg 2007, pp. 7-10.
  • La moda è la spuma dell'onda. Intervista a Dacia Maraini. Annotated afterword in the form of an interview on fashion and culture with Dacia Maraini by Dagmar Reichardt and Carmela D'Angelo. In: Moda Made in Italy. Il linguaggio della moda e del costume italiano. Ed. And with an introduction by Dagmar Reichardt and Carmela D'Angelo. Franco Cesati Editore, (Civiltà italiana. Terza serie, No. 10), Florence 2016, ISBN 978-88-7667-576-8 , pp. 209-216.

Filmography

Literary template

  • 1973: Theresa the thief (Teresa la ladra)
  • 1976: Love is something tender (Io sono mia) - based on the novel Donna in guerra
  • 1996: The Mute Duchess (Marianna Ucria)

script

  • 1968: Mother's Heart (Cuore di Mamma)
  • 1968: Toujours l'Amour - always love (L'eta 'del malessere)
  • 1974: Erotic stories from 1001 nights (Il fiore delle mille e una notte)
  • 1981: The future is called a woman (La futura è donna)
  • 1982: The story of Piera (Storia di Piera)
  • 1988: fear and love
  • 1991: love without words (La bocca)

Director

  • 1970: L'amore coniugale

literature

  • Maria Antonietta Cruciata: Dacia Maraini. Cadamo, Fiesole 2003 ( Italian ).
  • Cornelia Daniels: Female Emancipation and Historical Novel. Research on Anna Banti's novel “Artemisia” and “La lunga vita di Marianna Ucria” by Dacia Maraini. Dissertation Uni Düsseldorf 2003, DNB 969831226 .
  • Enrico Ghidetto, Giorgio Luti: Dizionario critico della letteratura italiana del Novecento. Editori Riuniti, Rome 1997 ( Italian ).
  • Barbara Heinzius: Feminism or Pornography? On the representation of eroticism and sexuality in Dacia Maraini's work. Röhrig Universitätsverlag, St. Ingbert 1995, ISBN 3-86110-056-8 (= Sofie. Saarländische Schriftenreihe zur Frauenforschung , Volume 1; also dissertation Uni Saarbrücken 1994).

Web links

Commons : Dacia Maraini  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ on Lucio Pozzi see English Wikipedia en
  2. ^ Dacia Maraini - Candidata al Premio Nobel. San Remo News, January 30, 2016, accessed February 13, 2017 (Italian).
personal data
SURNAME Maraini, Dacia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Fiesole