Giorgio Manganelli

Giorgio Manganelli (* November 15, 1922 in Milan, † 28 May 1990 in Rome ) was an Italian writer, essayist, critic, journalist and literary critic.

Life

Manganelli was born in 1922 in Milan. After studying English philology, he worked from 1947 to 1953 as school teacher in Milan, from 1953 to 1971 in Rome. With the novel Hilarotragoedia (German Lower driveway ) brought him a surprise hit in 1964, who established his literary fame, which he always retained a certain outsider relationship to the Italian literary scene. Italo Calvino was his most important friend and supporter. Numerous trips to India, Malaysia and China lead to post-modern travel literature; other writings devoted to Islam. He was a member of the avant-garde Gruppo 63, which also Umberto Eco and Edoardo Sanguineti be attributed, however, soon broke from their program of Neoavanguardia. He worked for many years as a literary critic for the Corriere della Sera. Manganelli died in Rome in 1990.

Work

Manga Ellis prose work is characterized by a neo- mannerist formalism, which is characterized by numerous digressions, digressions and asides and the Literary Construction of an artificial world of the under-or subconscious and the surreal - an imagined world that exists parallel to the real and in the the paradoxes and contradictions of the real can resolve.

In Germany Manganelli was especially known by the Centuria (German: Irrläufe ). It is a collection of one hundred novels, which are only one page long. First, the choice of topics seems arbitrary; But in process shows that the individual novels form a complex network. Recurring themes include: identity crises; ghosts; hell; murderer; Things that do not exist; robbers; princesses; Tyrants.

The fool is in his often bulky plant a recurring character; it is the actual literary person to eternal storyteller, to personalized literature. In encomio del tirano is the fool protagonist, antagonist of the equally prototypical tyrant ' - a relationship in which the conflict author himself - reflects readers.

His literary theory works are La letteratura come Menzogna (1967 ), Angosce di stile and Laboriose inezie (1986). His newspaper glosses and travel reports can be found again in Cina e altri Orienti (1986).

In addition, Manganelli is also a translator, emerged particularly the works of Edgar Allan Poe.

Awards

Writings

• Hilarotragoedia. Milan 1964. (German: Lower Driveway Berlin 1967.. )
• La letteratura come Menzogna. Milan 1967.
• Nuovo commento. Turin 1969 ( Eng.: Omegabet Berlin 1970. )
• Agli dei ulteriori. Turin 1972 ( Eng.:. Addresses future gods Berlin 1983)
• Lunario dell'Orfano Sannita. Turin 1973.
• Cina e altri Orienti. Turin 1974.
• Pinocchio. un libro parallelogram. Turin 1977.
• Centuria. . Milan 1979 German: Irrläufe. 100 novels in pill form. Translated from the Italian by Iris Schnebel Kaschnitz, Wagenbach, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-8031-0107-7. and illustrated by Tullio Pericoli edition: Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-596-10998-1.
• Angosce di stile. Milan 1981.
• Discorso dell'ombra e dello stemma o del lettore e dello scrittori considerati come dementia. Milan 1982.
• Amore. . Milan 1981 ( Eng.: Amore Berlin 1982. ).
• Discorso dell'ombra e dello stemma. In 1982.
• Dall'inferno. 1985th (German: From Hell)
• Laboriose inezie. (1986).
• Rumori o voci. 1987th (German: sounds or voices )
• Tutti gli errori. (1987).
• Antologia privata. (1989).
• Improvvisi by macchina scrivere there. (1989).
• Encomio del tiranno. (1990)
• Esperimento con l' India. 1992 ( Eng.: The Indian experiment Berlin 1994. )
• La palude definitica. (1992)
• Il rumore sottile della prose. (1994)
• La notte. (1996)
• La penombra mental. interviste e conversazioni 1965-1990. (2001)
• L' infinita trama di Allah. viaggi nell'Islam. From 1973 to 1987. (2002)
• Manganelli furioso. Handbook for useless passions. Berlin 1987.