Vincenzo Consolo
Vincenzo Consolo (born February 18, 1933 in Sant'Agata di Militello near Messina , † January 21, 2012 in Milan ) was an Italian writer .
Live and act
In 1992 he received the Premio Strega for his novel Nottetempo, casa per casa (Eng. At night, from house to house ) .
On June 20, 2007, the University of Palermo awarded him an honorary doctorate ( laurea honoris causa in Filologia moderna ). For lectio magistralis , Consolo has as subject Due poeti prigionieri in Algeri. Miguel de Cervantes e Antonio Veneziano elected.
With his first novel La ferita dell'aprile from 1963 (German: "Die Wunde im April") he became known not only in Italy, but later also in Germany, and with the "smile of the unknown sailor" earned his reputation as a great stylist and consolidate moralist. Consolo processes the experiences he gained in Sicily in novels and stories, poems and travelogues.
From 1969 Consolo lived in Milan .
Works
- The wound in April. Novel . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt / M. 1990, ISBN 3-518-01977-5
- The unknown sailor's smile. Novel . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt / M. 1996, ISBN 3-518-39104-6
- The stones of Pantalica. Sicilian stories . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt / M. 1996, ISBN 3-518-40813-5
- At night, from house to house. Novel . Folio Verlag , Vienna / Bozen 2003, ISBN 978-3-85256-250-6
- Retablo . Novel. Folio Verlag, Vienna / Bozen 2005, ISBN 978-3-85256-314-5
- Palermo. The pain . Novel. Folio Verlag, Vienna / Bozen 2008, ISBN 3-85256-446-8
criticism
His novel By Night, from House to House takes place in the fascist Sicily in the 1920s and includes Aleister Crowley's stay in Cefalù for several years . In a criticism of the SZ on March 16, 2004, it says: “The author, born in Sicily in 1933, who became known in Germany with the novels“ Die Wunde im April ”and“ The smile of the unknown sailor ”, radically rejects the novel form and every conventional use of language ... He reinvents the disavowed, worn and abused language anew, describes things as when they were first seen, so in the many descriptions of artefacts, images and buildings that bring a sunken Sicilian world back to life. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Sicilian - On the death of the Italian writer Vincenzo Consolo - Süddeutsche Zeitung
- ↑ Lauree honoris causa in Filologia moderna a Vincenzo Consolo e Luigi Meneghello, Palermo 2007, pp. 23–34
literature
- Giuseppe Traini: Vincenzo Consolo . Cadmo, Fiesole 2001, ISBN 88-7923-261-4
- Natale Tedesco, laudatio per Vincenzo Consolo , in: Lauree honoris causa in Filologia moderna a Vincenzo Consolo e Luigi Meneghello, Palermo 2007
Web links
- Literature by and about Vincenzo Consolo in the catalog of the German National Library
- Interview with Vincenzo Consolo at Sicilia orientale
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Consolo, Vincenzo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 18, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sant'Agata di Militello , Sicily |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 21, 2012 |
| Place of death | Milan |