Giorgio Manganelli

Giorgio Manganelli (born November 15, 1922 in Milan , † May 28, 1990 in Rome ) was an Italian writer , essayist , critic , journalist and literary scholar .

Life

Manganelli was born in Milan in 1922. After studying English philology , he worked as a school teacher in Milan from 1947 to 1953, and in Rome from 1953 to 1971. With the novel Hilarotragoedia (Eng. Niederauffahrt ) he achieved a surprise success in 1964, which established his literary fame, although he always maintained a certain outsider relationship to the Italian literary scene. Italo Calvino was his most important friend and patron. Numerous trips to India , Malaysia and China lead to postmodern travel literature; other writings are devoted to Islam . He was a member of the avant-garde Gruppo 63 , to which Umberto Eco and Edoardo Sanguineti are also assigned, but soon broke away from their Neoavanguardia program . For many years he worked as a literary critic for the Corriere della Sera . Manganelli died in Rome in 1990.

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Manganelli's prose work is characterized by a neo- Mannerist formalism, which is characterized by numerous digressions, digressions and marginal notes and by the literary construction of an artificial world of the sub- or superconscious and the surreal - an imagined world that exists parallel to the real one and in the the paradoxes and contradictions of the real can resolve.

In Germany Manganelli became particularly well-known through the Centuria (German: errlaufes ). It is a collection of one hundred novels, each one page long. At first the choice of topic seems arbitrary; but as it progresses it becomes clear that the individual novels form a complex network. Recurring topics are: crises of meaning; Ghosts; the hell; Killer; Things that don't exist; Robber; Princesses; Tyrants.

The fool is a recurring figure in his often bulky work; he becomes the actual literary person, the eternal storyteller, the personified literature. In Encomio del tirano , the fool becomes the main character, antagonist of the equally prototypical 'tyrant' - a relationship in which the conflict between author and reader is reflected.

His literary theoretical works are La letteratura come menzogna (1967), Angosce di stile and Laboriose inezie (1986). His newspaper glosses and travel reports can be found in Cina e altri orienti (1986).

In addition, Manganelli has also emerged as a translator, particularly of the works of Edgar Allan Poe .

Awards

• 1986 Austrian State Prize for European Literature

Fonts

• Hilarotragoedia. Milan 1964. (German: Niederauffahrt. Berlin 1967.)
• La letteratura come menzogna. Milan 1967.
• Nuovo commento. Turin 1969, (German: Omegabet. Berlin 1970)
• Agli dei ulteriori. Turin 1972 (German: To future gods. Berlin 1983)
• Lunario dell'Orfano Sannita. Turin 1973.
• Cina e altri orienti. Turin 1974.
• Pinocchio. un libro parallelo. Turin 1977.
• Centuria. Milan 1979. German: errlaufes. 100 novels in pill form. Translated from the Italian by Iris Schnebel-Kaschnitz, Wagenbach, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-8031-0107-7 . and the edition illustrated by Tullio Pericoli : Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-596-10998-1 .
• Angosce di styles. Milan 1981.
• Discorso dell'ombra e dello stemma o del lettore e dello scrittori considerati come dementi. Milan 1982.
• Amore. Milan 1981. (German: Amore. Berlin 1982).
• Discorso dell'ombra e dello stemma. 1982.
• Dall'inferno. 1985. (German: From Hell)
• Laboriose inezie. (1986).
• Rumori o voci. 1987. (German: noises or voices)
• Tutti gli errori. (1987).
• Antologia privata. (1989).
• Improvvisi per macchina da scrivere. (1989).
• Encomio del tiranno. (1990)
• Esperimento con l'India. 1992 (German: The Indian Experiment. Berlin 1994)
• La palude definitiva. (1992)
• Il rumore sottile della prosa. (1994)
• La notte. (1996)
• La penombra mental. interviste e conversazioni 1965-1990 . (2001)
• L'infinita trama di Allah. viaggi nell'Islam. 1973-1987. (2002)
• Manganelli furioso. Handbook for useless passions. Berlin 1987.

Web links

• Literature by and about Giorgio Manganelli in the catalog of the German National Library