Giovanni Comisso

Giovanni Comisso (born October 3, 1895 in Treviso , Italy , † January 21, 1969 there ) was an Italian writer , poet and journalist .

Life

Giovanni Comisso took part in the First World War and in 1919 followed the Italian writer Gabriele D'Annunzio to Fiume . He studied law and obtained his law degree from the University of Siena in 1924 , but never practiced the legal profession. Instead, he worked as a bookseller in Milan and as an art dealer in Paris . He also worked for major Italian newspapers such as La Gazzetta del Popolo , Corriere della Sera , Il Messagero and La Stampa . After the Second World War he worked for the newspapers Il Mondo , Il Giorno and Il Gazzettino . In his capacity as a journalist, he traveled to Northern Europe, Africa and the Far East.

In his early poems Comisso was still clearly under the influence of D'Annunzio; but soon he freed himself from its influence. In his stories and novels, especially about people and stretches of land by the sea, he shows a good gift for observation and uses a simple, realistic representation. He also wrote travel and memory books, especially the autobiography Le mie stagioni (Milan 1951).

Works

• Poetry , poems, 1916
• Il porto dell'amore , short stories, 1925
• Gente di mare , short stories, 1928
• Storia di un patrimonio , novel, 1933
• I due compagni , novel, 1936
• Un italiano errante per l'Europa , travel book, 1937
• Un inganno d'amore , novel, 1942
• Gioventù che muore , novel, 1949
• Viaggi felici , travel book, 1949
• Capricci italiani , travel book, 1952
• Poetry , poems, 1954
• Un gatto attraversa la strada , short story, 1954 (winner of the Premio Strega literary prize )
• Attraversa il tempo , novel, 1968
• Il sereno dopo la nebbia , novel, published posthumously in 1974

literature

• Comisso, Giovanni , in: Gero von Wilpert (ed.): Lexikon der Weltliteratur , Vol. 1: Authors , Alfred Kröner Verlag, 3rd edition, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-520-80703-3 , p. 314.
• Marcello Carlino:  Comisso, Giovanni. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 27:  Collenuccio – Confortini. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1982.

Web links

• Literature by and about Giovanni Comisso in the catalog of the German National Library
• Giovanni Comisso , Encyclopædia Britannica online