Erri De Luca

Erri De Luca in January 2006

Erri , actually Enrico De Luca (born May 20, 1950 in Naples ), is an Italian writer and translator .

biography

At the age of eighteen, Erri De Luca went to Rome in 1968 to participate in the extra-parliamentary movement Lotta Continua (German: permanent struggle) . In the 1970s he became one of its leading figures.

He then worked in numerous professions in and outside Italy - as a skilled worker at Fiat , driver, warehouse clerk and bricklayer. During the war in Yugoslavia he was involved as a driver of aid deliveries for the population. He taught himself several languages, including ancient Hebrew , which enabled him to translate some books of the Bible into Italian.

At the age of 39, he published his first book Non ora, non qui (Not here and not now) in 1989 , in which he recalled his childhood in Naples. Since his works are regularly translated into French , he received several awards in France between 1994 and 2002: in 1994 the Prix ​​France Culture for Aceto, arcobaleno , in 2000 the Prix ​​Laure Bataillon for Tre Cavalli and in 2002 the Prix ​​Femina Étranger for Montedidio . In 2010 De Luca was partially awarded the Petrarca Prize . In contrast, Italian literary criticism was not always favorable to him. In a collective diatribe z. B. Massimo Onofri also De Lucas work and criticized the "eternal Italian Dannunzianesimo , here in an ideologically conditioned red paint". Regarding De Lucas' frequent inspiration from Bible texts, Onofri spoke of "theological kitsch".

In recent times, De Luca has often been working on joint projects with other authors and artists. B. with the musicians Gianmaria Testa and Gabriele Mirabassi in the partially set to music performance of his Chisciotte e gli invincibili (Don Quixote and the invincible) . He also wrote the text for the song 'Italia una parola aperta' , published in 2013 and sung by Antonella Ruggiero .

In 2015, De Luca was accused by a Turin court of having called in two newspaper interviews in autumn 2013 to "sabotage" the Mont Cenis Base Tunnel , the railway tunnel project between Lyon and Turin; the public prosecutor saw it as an incitement to "specific and unlawful acts." The court acquitted him on October 19, "surprisingly for him".

Awards (selection)

• 2013: European Prize for Literature
• 2016: European Book Prize for the essay Le Plus et le Moins
• 2016: Bad Sex in Fiction Award for The Day Before Happiness

Works

Parts of this article seem out of date as of 2013 .
Please help to research and insert the missing information .

Books

biography

• Silvia Acocella (Ed.): Altre prove di risposta . Dante & Descartes, Naples 2000, ISBN 88-88142-00-2 .

Letters

• Lettere fraterne . Naples: Dante & Descartes, 2007, ISBN 978-88-6157-021-4 (with Izet Sarajlic)

stories

• Non ora, non qui . Feltrinelli, Milan 1989, ISBN 88-07-01389-4 .
  • The light of the early years . Translation by Anette Künzler. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2000, ISBN 3-499-22405-4
• Variazioni sopra una nota sola. Lettere a Francesca . Guida Editore, Naples 1990, ISBN 88-7188-002-1 .
• Una nuvola come tappeto . Feltrinelli, Milan 1991, ISBN 88-07-01426-2 .
• Aceto, arcobaleno . Feltrinelli, Milan 1992, ISBN 88-07-01444-0 .
  • The ashes of my life . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1999, ISBN 3-499-22407-0
• I colpi dei sensi . Fahrenheit 451, Milan 1993, ISBN 88-86095-06-6 .
• In alto a sinistra . Feltrinelli, Milan 1994, ISBN 88-07-01472-6 .
  • The first night after a murder . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1999, ISBN 3-499-22406-2
• Pianoterra . Quodlibet di Tempi Provinciali, Macerata 1995, ISBN 88-86570-03-1 .
• Ora great . Qiqajon, Magnano 1997, ISBN 88-8227-003-3 .
• Il contrario di uno . Feltrinelli, Milan 2003, ISBN 88-07-01638-9 .
• Precipitazioni . Dante & Descartes, Naples 2004.
• Morso di luna nuova. Raconto per voci in tre stanzi . Mondadori, Milan 2004, ISBN 88-04-54491-0 .
• Lettere a Francesca . Dante & Descartes, Naples 2004, ISBN 88-88142-65-7 .
• Alzaia . New edition Feltrinelli, Milan 2004, ISBN 88-07-84043-X .
• Chisciottimista . Dante & Descartes, Naples 2005, ISBN 88-88142-78-9 .
• In nome della madre . 2nd Edition. Feltrinelli, Milan 2006, ISBN 88-04-54735-9 .
• I pesci non chiudono gli tatting . Feltrinelli, Milan 2011, ISBN 978-88-07-01855-8 .
  • German: Fish never close their eyes . Graf, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-86220-047-4 .

Poetry

• Opera sull'acqua e altre poesie . Einaudi, Turin 2002, ISBN 88-06-16174-1 .
• L'ospite incallito . Einaudi, Turin 2008, ISBN 978-88-06-19261-7 .
• Solo andata. Righe che vanno troppo spesso a capo . Feltrinelli, Milan 2005, ISBN 88-07-42110-0 .

review

• Misteri romani, 22 racconti inediti. Le storie più affascinanti e inquietanti della città. In: La Repubblica . 2004
• Interni romani. In: La Repubblica 2006.

Novels

• Do, mio . Feltrinelli, Milan 1999, ISBN 88-07-01533-1 .
  • The sea of ​​memory . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2000, ISBN 3-499-22743-6
• Tre cavalli . Feltrinelli, Milan 2000, ISBN 88-07-81681-4 .
  • The sky in the south . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2002, ISBN 3-498-03912-1
• Montedidio. 3. Edition. Feltrinelli, Milan 2002, ISBN 88-07-01600-1 .
  • I'm there . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2004, ISBN 3-499-23988-4
  • Montedidio . Graf Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86220-031-3
• Il giorno prima della felicità. 5th edition. Feltrinelli, Milan 2009, ISBN 978-88-07-01773-5 .
  • The day before happiness . List Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-548-61070-2
• Il peso della farfalle . Feltrinelli, Milan 2010, ISBN 978-88-07-01793-3 .
  • Weight of the butterfly . List Taschenbuchverlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-548-61136-5
• Il torto del soldato . Feltrinelli, Milan 2012. ISBN 978-88-07-01903-6 .

Non-fiction

• Cattività. Ritratti dal carcere . Nuovi Equilibri, Viterbo 1999.
• Tufo . Dante & Descartes, Naples 1999.
• Un papavero rosso all'occhiello senza coglierne il fiore . Editore Interattiva, Rome 2000.
• Lettere da una città bruciata . Dante & Descartes, Naples 2002, ISBN 88-88142-25-8 .
• Immanifestazione. Roma, February 15, 2003 . Dante & Descartes, Naples 2003, ISBN 88-88142-39-8 .
• Sulla traccia di Nives . Mondadori, Milan 2005, ISBN 88-04-54735-9 .
  • The curvature of the horizon. With a mountaineer in the Himalayas . Hanser, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-446-20781-3 .

• Napòlide . Dante & Descartes, Naples 2006, ISBN 88-88142-88-6 .

Non-fiction books on the Bible

• L'urgenza della libertà. Il gubileo e gli anni sacri nella loro stesura d'origine dal libro Levitico / Vaikrà . Filema, Naples 1999, ISBN 88-86358-33-4 .
• Elogio del massimo timore . Filema, Naples 2000, ISBN 88-86358-45-8 .
• Nocciolo d'oliva . EMP, Padua 2002, ISBN 88-250-1020-6 .
• Sottosopra. Alture dell'antico e del Nuovo Testamento . Mondadori, Milan 2007, ISBN 978-88-04-56305-1 (together with Gennaro Matino)
• Mestieri all'aria aperta. Pastori e pescatori nell'antico e nel Nuovo Testamento . Feltrinelli, Milan 2004, ISBN 88-07-49032-3 (together with Gennaro Matino)

Plays

• L'ultimo viaggio di Sindbad . Einaudi, Turin 2003, ISBN 88-06-16630-1 .
• La doppia vita dei numeri . Feltrinelli, Milan 2012, ISBN 978-88-07-01916-6 .
• Chisciotte e gli invincibili. Il racconto, i versi, la musica . Fandango Libri, Rome 2007 (1 DVD, together with Gianmaria Testa and Gabriele Mirabassi)

Translated works

Bible translations

• Libro di Rut . Feltrinelli, Milan 2000, ISBN 88-07-82150-8 .
• Kohèlet / Ecclesiaste . Feltrinelli, Milan 2001
• Giona / Iona . Feltrinelli, Milan 2001, ISBN 88-07-82122-2 .
• Esodo / Nomi . Feltrinelli, Milan 2001, ISBN 88-07-82093-5 .
• Vita di Sansone . Dal libro Giudici / Shoftim . Feltrinelli, Milan 2002, ISBN 88-07-82163-X .
• Vita di Noé / Nòa. Il salvagente; dal libro Genesi -Bereshit . Feltrinelli, Milan 2004, ISBN 88-07-82172-9 .

Other

• Alexander Sergejewitsch Pushkin : L'ospite di pietra. L'invito a morte di Don Giovanni. Piccola tragedia in versi . Feltrinelli, Milan 2005, ISBN 88-07-82179-6 (German The Stone Guest)

swell

literature

• Ferdinando Castelli: Erri de Luca e le "Penultime notizie circa Ieshu / Gesù". In: La civiltà cattolica. Vol. 163 (2012), No. 4, pp. 594-602, ISSN  0009-8167
• Cristiana Lardo et al. a. (Ed.): L'ultima letteratura italiana. Erraldo Affinati, Niccolò Ammaniti, Rocco Carbone, Erri De Luca, Marco Lodoli, Francesco Piccolo, Elisabetta Rasy, Tiziano Scarpa, Sandro Veronesi . Vecchiarelli, Rome 1999, ISBN 88-8247-330-1 .
• Myriam Swennen Ruthenberg (ed.): Scrivere nella polvere. Saggi su Erri De Luca . Ed. ETS, Pisa 2005, ISBN 88-467-0980-2 .
• Attilio Scuderi: Erri De Luca (Scrittori in corso; Vol. 5). Ed. Cadmo, Fiesole 2002, ISBN 88-7923-247-9 .

Movie

• Sylvain Bergere (director): Thinking allowed! The writer Erri de Luca . Arte , film recording from July 28, 2006

Web links

• Literature by and about Erri De Luca in the catalog of the German National Library
• Erri De Luca in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Website dedicated to Erri De Luca (Italian)

proof

1. ↑ His American mother, who married a Napolitan, gave the children English first names; because he constantly had to explain to his acquaintances how to pronounce Harry ( for Enrico ), he changed the name so that the pronunciation corresponded to Italian; De Luca himself said in the arte documentary "Europe, your writers", broadcast on November 13, 2013.
2. ↑ Massimo Onofri: "(...) eterno dannunzianesimo italiano, aggiornato al rosso dell'ideologia.". In: Sul banco dei cattivi. A proposito di Baricco e di altri scrittori alla moda . Donzelli, Rome 2006, ISBN 88-6036-072-2 .
3. ↑ Erri De Luca: Chisciotte e gli invincibili . Excerpt from a reading in the Teatro Stabile in Genoa 2006 (YouTube)
4. ↑ Thomas Steinfeld : Bricks upside down . Süddeutsche Zeitung of September 23, 2015, p. 11
5. ↑ Andreas Rossmann : One voice for many. The writer De Luca on his acquittal , interview, in: FAZ , October 24, 2015, p. 11
6. ↑ ^{a b} translated by Anette Künzler
7. ↑ translated by Tobias Eisermann
8. ↑ ^{a b c d e} translated by Annette Kopetzki
9. ↑ translated by Helmut Moysich .
10. ^ A collection of essays that had already been published in the newspapers il manifesto and "Avvenire"