Ermanno Cavazzoni

Ermanno Cavazzoni

Ermanno Cavazzoni (* 1947 in Reggio nell'Emilia ) is an Italian writer , translator , radio play and screenwriter .

life and work

Ermanno Cavazzoni is professor of aesthetics at the University of Bologna , where he also lives. Together with Gianni Celati and Walter Pedullà, he publishes the magazine Il caffè illustrato .

Cavazzoni is a member of Oplepo (acronym from “ Op ificio di Le tteratura Po tenziale” = workshop for potential literature), a group of authors who experimented with the Italian language, inspired by Oulipo .

His novel Song of the Moon Heads (Italian: Poema dei lunatici ) inspired Federico Fellini for his film The Voice of the Moon (original title: La voce della luna ).

Works

Novels, poems, short stories and anthologies

• Guida alla lettura del quotidiano: lo studio dell'italiano in un corso di 150 ore , 1976
• Esplorazioni sulla via Emilia: scritture nel paesaggio , 1986
• Il poema dei lunatici , 1987, ISBN 88-07-81371-8
• Le tentazioni di Girolamo , 1991, ISBN 88-339-0596-9
• I sette cuori , 1992, ISBN 88-339-0674-4
• Vite brevi di idioti , 1994, ISBN 88-07-01473-4
• Rivelazioni sui purgatori , 1996, ISBN 88-86051-43-3
• Cirenaica , 1999
• Gli scrittori inutili , 2002, ISBN 88-07-01609-5
• Storia naturale dei Giganti , 2007, ISBN 978-88-6088-048-2

Essays

• Archivi manicomiali in Emilia Romagna , Società e storia, 1985, Vol. 28, p. 443
• Entretien avec Roberto Benigni Voyage en Fellini , Cahiers du cinéma, 1990, Vol. 431/432, p. 18 (French)
• Gli scrittori inutili , Italian. Journal of Italian Language and Literature, 1997, J. 19, N. 2 (38), pp. 2-5

Translations

• Jacopo da Varagine: Le leggende dei santi: dalla "Legenda aurea" , 1993, ISBN 88-339-0768-6

German editions

• Brief biographies of idiots , Buccaneers, 1988, Vol. 37, p. 151
• Midnight High School , 1994, ISBN 3-608-93196-1
• Short Résumés of Idiots , 1994, ISBN 3-8031-2314-3
• Song of the Moon Heads , 1996, ISBN 3-8031-3122-7
• The Useless Writers , 2003, ISBN 3-8031-3179-0
• The little book of the giants , Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-8031-1272-9 .

English editions

• The voice of the moon , 1990, ISBN 1-85242-164-9

French editions

• Le Poème des lunatiques: roman , 1990, ISBN 2-86744-156-0
• Le calendrier des imbéciles: récits , 1996, ISBN 2-84112-036-8

Film adaptations

• 1990: The Voice of the Moon ( La voce della lune )

literature

• Alberto Olivio: Ira fatale. Autobiografia di un uxoricida . Bollati Boringhieri, Turin 1988, ISBN 88-339-0433-4 .

Web links

• OPLEPO Homepage (Italian)
• La voce della luna in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by and about Ermanno Cavazzoni in the catalog of the German National Library
• Review of The Useless Writers FR June 28, 2003 and NZZ December 20, 2003
• “The art of uselessness” Interview with the writer on March 20, 2003
• Audiobook review for short résumés of idiots sandammeer 11/2005
• Audiobook Review Short Résumés of Idiots Friday October 21, 2005
• Review of short résumés of idiots , Berliner Zeitung April 20, 1995
• Review of Cirenaica (Italian)
• Interview with Cavazzoni (Italian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Far too big and unfortunately extinct in: FAZ of November 14, 2011, page 26