Tommaso Landolfi

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Tommaso Landolfi

Tommaso Landolfi (born August 9, 1908 in Pico Farnese, † July 8, 1979 in Ronciglione near Rome ) was an Italian writer .

Life

Coming from a noble family, Tommaso Landolfi spent his childhood and youth alternately in Pico Farnese, Rome and Florence , where he graduated from university in 1932 with a thesis on the Russian writer Anna Akhmatova . His profound knowledge of Russian , French and German literature was reflected in an extremely productive translation activity, which Landolfi maintained throughout his life.

In Florence, where he joined the intellectuals in the famous literary café “Le Giubbe Rosse”, he worked for several literary magazines (including Letteratura and Campo di Marte ) before his first collection of short stories appeared in 1937 under the title Dialogo dei massimi sistemi . This was followed by other volumes of stories ( Il mar delle blatte e altre storie , 1939; La spada , 1942) and novels ( La pietra lunare. Scene della vita di provincia , 1939; Le due zittelle , 1946), in which the fantastic and the grotesque always appear The center of the story is. This tension will remain characteristic of Landolfi's work and in literary criticism - probably not quite rightly - classify the author in a series of narrators who founded a possible “Italian surrealism ” ( Buzzati , Savinio , Delfini ).

Tommaso Landolfi is one of the most important and original Italian authors of the 20th century, although his work did not achieve great popularity.

In 1996, Landolfi's daughter founded the “Centro Studi Landolfiani”.

Works

  • Dialogo dei massimi sistemi , 1937.
  • La pietra lunare , 1939.
  • Il Mar delle blatte e altre storie , 1939.
  • La spada , 1942.
  • Il principe infelice , 1943.
  • Le due zittelle , 1946.
  • Racconto d'autunno , 1947.
  • Cancroregina , 1950.
  • La bière du pêcheur , 1953.
  • Ombre , 1954.
  • La raganella d'oro , 1954.
  • Ottavio di Saint-Vincent , 1958.
  • Mezzacoda , 1958.
  • Landolfo VI di Benevento , 1959.
  • Se non la realtà , 1960.
  • Racconti , 1961.
  • In società , 1962.
  • Rien va , 1963.
  • Scene della vita di Cagliostro , 1963.
  • Tre racconti , 1964.
  • Un amore del nostro tempo , 1965.
  • Racconti impossibili , 1966.
  • Des mois , 1967.
  • Colloqui , 1967.
  • Un paniere di chiocciole , 1968.
  • Filastrocche , 1968.
  • Faust '67 , 1969.
  • Breve canzoniere , 1971.
  • Gogol a Roma , 1971.
  • Viola di morte , 1972.
  • Le labrene , 1974.
  • A caso , 1975.
  • Il tradimento , 1977.
  • Del meno , 1978.

In German translation

  • Stories translated by Charlotte Jenny. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1966.
  • Cancroregina. The Queen of Cancer or A Strange Journey to the Moon . Short story, with an afterword by Vincenzo Orlando, translated by Ulrich Hartmann. Freiburg, Beck 1986. ISBN 3-924175-25-X
  • Stories selected by Italo Calvino
    • Volume 1: Nightshade , translated by Heinz Riedt . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1987.
    • Volume 2: Milan Doesn't Exist , 1989.
  • The moonstone , translated by Barbara Villiger Heilig, Freiburg, Beck, 1989.
  • Autumn story , translated by Heinz Riedt. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1990
  • La bière du pêcheur. The fisherman's beer or the sinner's bier , translated by Heinz Riedt. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1994.
  • Two late maids , translated by Heinz Riedt. Reinbek, Rowohlt, 1996.
  • Rien va , translated by Ragni Maria Gschwendt. Reinbek, Rowohlt 1999.

literature

  • Romana Capek-Habekovic: Tommaso Landolfi's grotesque images . Lang, Bern 1986, ISBN 0-8204-0263-X .
  • Tarcisio Tarquini (ed.): Landolfi. Libro per libro . Alatri, Hetea Editrice, 1988.
  • Barbara Villiger Heilig: Passion for the game. Investigation into the work of Tommaso Landolfi . Stauffenburg, Tübingen 1989, ISBN 3-923721-62-5 .
  • Florian F. Marzin: The moonstone . In: The Science Fiction Year 1991 (Vol. 5), edited by Wolfgang Jeschke . Heyne, Munich 1990, pp. 722-723, ISBN 3-453-04471-1 .
  • Halka Breyhan: Chance and the play of words in Tommaso Landolfi's narrative . Lang, Bern 2005, ISBN 3-631-53902-9 .

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personal data
SURNAME Landolfi, Tommaso
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Pico Farnese
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1979
Place of death Ronciglione near Rome