Luigi Capuana

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Luigi Capuana

Luigi Capuana (born March 28, 1839 in Mineo , † November 29, 1915 in Catania ) was an Italian writer from Sicily . He is one of the main representatives of the Italian literary movement of verism .

Life

Luigi Capuana was born the son of a wealthy landowner. After dropping out of law school, he went to Florence in 1864 . In 1868 he returned to his hometown and became mayor there. In 1875 he moved to Milan and worked as a literary and theater critic for the Corriere della Sera . From 1882 on he lived alternately in Rome and Catania. In 1902 he finally settled in Catania and became a lecturer at the University of Catania . He and his housekeeper had several children, whom he did not take with himself but instead gave them to an orphanage.

Capuana first wrote literary and theater reviews and then began to write novellas, novels, poems and fairy tales in the Sicilian language . Influenced by naturalism and the works of Émile Zola , he shaped, like his contemporaries Giovanni Verga and Federico De Roberto, the style of Verism.

Works (selection)

  • The Marchese of Roccaverdina. Novel . Translated by Charlotte Birnbaum. Desch, Munich 1967.
  • The Marchese of Roccaverdina. Novel . Translated by Monika Köster and Christian Wagner. Piper, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-492-11227-7 .
  • Fiabe Italiane - Italian fairy tales . Selection and translation by Ina-Maria Martens and Emma Viale-Stein. dtv, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-423-09433-8 .
  • A vampire . Translated by Helmut Degner . In: Vampires. Anthology. Fackelverlag, Olten 1969, pp. 224-238.
  • Giacinta. Novel . Translated by Stefanie Römer. Afterword by Angela Oster. Manesse, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-7175-2434-2 .

Film adaptations

  • 1942: Jealousy ( Gelosia ) based on the novel "The Marchese of Roccaverdina"
  • 1956: The Fool and the Dancer ( I Girovaghi )

literature

  • Cristina della Coletta: Teoria realista et prassi fantastica: “Un Vampiro” di LC In: Modern Language Notes (MLN), ISSN  0026-7910 , vol. 110 (1995), pp. 192-208 (Italian).
  • Helmut Meter: Figure and narrative conception in the veristic novel. Studies of Verga, de Roberto and Capuana against the background of the French realists and naturalists . Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-465-01716-1 (also habilitation thesis, University of Klagenfurt 1984).

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Maike Albath : How are the daughter's shares doing? When Luigi Capuana's novel "Giacinta" was published in 1879, it was a scandalous success. Now, for the first time, the accounts with the Sicilian bourgeoisie can also be read in German. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of March 17, 2017, p. 14.

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personal data
SURNAME Capuana, Luigi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Mineo
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1915
Place of death Catania