Walter Siti
Walter Siti (born May 20, 1947 in Modena ) is an Italian writer and literary critic.
Life
Walter Siti graduated from the Scuola Normale Superiore . He worked at the Universities of Pisa , Cosenza and L'Aquila . He has published essays on Eugenio Montale and Sandro Penna and was the curator of Pier Paolo Pasolini's literary complete edition. He published two volumes of literary reviews. Siti writes features in the La Stampa newspaper and moderates literary programs on RAI television .
Siti wrote his first novel in 1994. In 2007 he was on the shortlist of the Premio Bergamo , in 2009 he received the Premio Stephen Dedalus . In 2013 he received a Premio Mondello and a Premio Strega for Resistere non serve a niente . The novel Bruciare tutto about a pedophile priest, published in 2017, was met with controversy.
Works (selection)
- Saggio sull'endecasillabo di Pasolini . in: Paragone: Rivista mensile di arte figurativa e letteratura. Florence: Sansoni, 1972, pp. 39-61
- Il realismo dell'avanguardia . Turin: Einaudi, 1975
- Il neorealismo nella poesia italiana. 1941-1956 . Turin: Einaudi, 1980
- School of nudo . Turin: Einaudi, 1994 ISBN 88-06-13555-4
- Un dolore normal . Turin: Einaudi, 1999 ISBN 88-06-14974-1
- La magnifica merce . Turin: Einaudi, 2004 ISBN 88-06-16975-0
- Troppi paradisi . Turin: Einaudi, 2006 ISBN 88-06-17799-0
- Il contagio . Milan: Mondadori, 2008 ISBN 978-88-04-57950-2
- Il canto del diavolo . Milan: Rizzoli, 2009 ISBN 978-88-17-03039-7
- Autopsia dell'ossessione . Milan: Mondadori, 2010 ISBN 978-88-04-59542-7
- Resist non serve a niente . Milan: Rizzoli, 2012 ISBN 978-88-17-05846-9
- Il realismo è l'impossibile . Rome: Nottetempo, 2013 ISBN 978-88-7452-396-2
- Exit strategy . Milan: Rizzoli, 2014 ISBN 978-88-17-07243-4
- La voce verticale. 52 liriche per un anno. Milan: Rizzoli, 2015
- Bruciare tutto . Milan: Rizzoli, 2017 ISBN 978-88-17-09354-5
literature
- Alberto Casadei: Stile e tradizione nel romanzo italiano contemporaneo Bologna: Il mulino, 2007
- Francesca Giglio: Una autobiografia di fatti non accaduti: la narrativa di Walter Siti . Stilo, Bari 2008
- Claudia Jacobi: Proust dixit? Receptions de la Recherche dans l'autofiction de Serge Doubrovsky , Carmen Martín Gaite et Walter Siti . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2016
Web links
- Literature by and about Walter Siti in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Walter Siti in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Walter Siti in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Walter Siti , at treccani
- Walter Siti vince la LXVII edizione del premio Strega , radio broadcast on RAI
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Migge : Novel about pedophilia heats up the minds , on Deutschlandradio Kultur , April 21, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Siti, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian writer and literary critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 20, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Modena |