Gesualdo Bufalino

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Gesualdo Bufalino (born November 15, 1920 in Comiso , Sicily , † June 14, 1996 there ) was an Italian writer . He wrote short stories, novels, poems, plays, aphorisms and essays.

Life

Bufalino studied literature . During the Second World War he fell ill with tuberculosis and spent several years in a sanatorium . He then worked as a teacher of Italian and Latin and devoted himself to writing. However, it was not until 1981, at the instigation of his friend Leonardo Sciascia, that the first work Diceria dell'untore (The Pest House ) was published, which received an award that same year. The novel is set shortly after the Second World War in a Sicilian tuberculosis sanatorium. The focus is on the narrator and the terminally ill Marta. From the publication of the novel until his death, Bufalino published novels, short stories, plays, poems, aphorisms, essays, anthologies and various texts about his Sicilian homeland.

In 1996, Bufalino was killed in a car accident near his hometown Comiso.

Works (selection)

  • 1981: Diceria dell'untore.
    • 1989: German as Das Pesthaus.
    • 2009: German as Das Pesthaus. Translated by Karin Fleischanderl, Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 978-3-518-22019-1 .
  • 1982: Museo d'ombre.
    • 1982: German as the Museum of Shadows. Stories and pictures from Sicily.
  • 1982: L'amero miele.
    • 1995: German and Italian as bitter honey. L'amero miele. Poems.
  • 1984: Argo il cieco ovvero i sogni della memoria.
    • 1995: German as With blind Argus eyes or the dreams of memory.
  • 1986: L'uomo invaso e altri invenzioni.
    • 1989: German as Der Ingenieur von Babel.
  • 1988: La menzogne ​​della notte.
    • 1988: German as Die Lügen der Nacht.
  • 1991: Qui pro quo.
    • 1994: German as clear relationships.

Awards

The library in Comiso was named after Bufalino.

literature

  • Martin H. Neumann: Gesualdo Bufalino - A European Sicilian… in carta e ossa. Niemeyer 1999, ISBN 978-3-484-55030-8 .

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Bufalino, Gesualdo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sicilian writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Comiso
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1996
Place of death at Comiso