Pericle patocchi

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Pericle Patocchi (born March 11, 1911 in Lugano , † April 13, 1968 in Leukerbad ) was a Swiss writer , poet and teacher.

Life

Pericle Patocchi was born in Lugano as the son of Remo, postal worker and painter, and Asia Perea, an Italian of Spanish origin. He went to school in Varese and Milan , but in 1926 he moved to the Collège von Sion , where he graduated from high school . He then studied social sciences at the University of Geneva and modern literature at the University of Friborg . He completed both studies with a licentiate . From 1939 to 1951 he taught French language and literature at the commercial college in Bellinzona and from 1951 until his death at the high school in Lugano, where the writer Anna Felder was his student.

He died on Holy Saturday 1968 during a spa stay in Leukerbad and then he was buried in the Lugano cemetery.

Language change

Although Patocchi was Italian as his mother tongue, he chose the French language in the 1930s , in which he wrote his poems. There is only one work by him that he published in Italian: Nella chiara profondità (1944). Between 1936 and 1968 Patocchi published ten volumes of poetry in well-known Swiss and French publishers. Twice, in 1942 and 1960, he received a Schiller Prize . He also translated Salvatore Quasimodo , with whom he was friends, into French: Poèmes de Salvatore Quasimodo (1963).

Works

  • La Fin des songes , Éditions Présence, Geneva 1936
  • Les Solitudes de la matière , PUF, Freiburg im Uechtland 1939
  • Musiques légères , Éditions Marguerat, Lausanne 1941
  • Colombes délivrées , Éditions Marguerat, Lausanne 1942 (Schiller Prize)
  • Vingt Poèmes , Scheiwiller, All'Insegna del Pesce d'Oro, Milan 1948, foreword by Marcel Raymond
  • L'Ennui du bonheur , Mercure de France, Paris 1952 (from this the poem "Lézard" in the work last , 1957, was set to music by Ernst Widmer )
  • Gris beau gris , Pierre Seghers Éditeur, Paris 1954
  • Pure Perte , Mercure de France, Paris 1959 (Schiller Prize)
  • Chemin de croix , bilingual edition, Giulio Topi, Lugano 1967 (Italian translation by Salvatore Quasimodo, foreword by André Chamson )
  • Horizon vertical , Éditions de l'Aire / Rencontre, Lausanne 1968
  • L'Ennui du bonheur et autres poèmes , selection and presentation by Vahé Godel , La Différence, Paris 1993

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personal data
SURNAME Patocchi, Pericle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Lugano
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1968
Place of death Leukerbad