Federigo Tozzi

Federigo Tozzi ( born January 1, 1883 in Siena, † March 21, 1920 in Rome ) was an Italian writer.

Life and work

Federigo Tozzi was the son of the innkeeper Federigo Tozzi ( Ghigo del Sasso called, was born in Pari ( Civitella Paganico )), which in Siena restaurant Il Sasso ( Trattoria del Sasso, also del Sasso Rosso called ) in Via dei Rossi and country estates ( Podere Castagneto as Hauptgut ( literary processed later as Poggio a ' meli ), and also, Podere Pecorile ) south of Siena had at the Tressa. His mother was Annunziata Automi. He was the last of eight children, who all died in infancy, and was born in Via Banchi di Sopra, near the Arco dei Rossi in the connected home of the family restaurants. He first attended the Seminario Arcivescovile in Siena, then he went to high school, from which he was excluded in 1895 due to misconduct. In the same year on October 25, his mother died. In 1902, he finally left the school. In the same year began correspondence with his future wife, Emma Palagi. From 1908 he worked as a railway official in Pontedera ( March and April) and Florence ( until May 15, when his father died ), after which he led the possession of his father. Also in 1908 he married Emma Palagi, a year later, in August, their son Glauco was born. In 1911 he published his first volume of poetry (La zampogna verde ). In 1913 he began work on his first novel, Con gli occhi chiusi (Eng. with closed eyes), a strongly autobiographical embossed text. Also in 1913 he founded with Domenico Giuliòtti (* 1877 in San Casciano in Val di Pesa, † 1956 in Greve in Chianti) the magazine La Torre, which reached only seven issues. After the sale of the estate in 1914 Tozzi went in the same year as a journalist to Rome, where he was initially surprised by the outbreak of war volunteer in the press department of the Red Cross. In 1918 he joined the editorial staff of Messaggero della Domenica. ( † 1960 ibid * 1898 in Milan ) attention to him, which also encouraged him through his work as a writer for the newspaper, the writer Luigi Pirandello and Orio Vergani were. Tozzi died in 1920 in Rome of pneumonia.

Federigo Tozzi for the last few decades as a classic of Italian modernism, but also one of the few great Tuscan writers. According to Italo Calvino, he is one of the great European writers of Italian origin. His style is concise and laconic. According to Alberto Moravia Tozzi with simple words describe great tragedies.

Criticism

In the book market of Germany it is called Radio on April 2, 2012 in a meeting of 2011 published in Wagenbach Verlag novel Eyes closed ( Paperback ), which had been already published ( in German language ) by Piper Verlag ( Munich) in 1988:

  • " Tozzis writing is trained to Flaubert's impassibilité He does not complain and does not accuse when something is broken, but has a sharp eye on the pieces. Look at that A sense of the fragility of human affairs should be set at our readers. " And: "A lucid novel of quiet inscrutability, a voice, a sound that stays in your ear like the sound of bells, which loses itself in the hills of Siena. "

The literary critic Giuseppe Petronio (1909-2003) writes in his History of Italian literature on Tozzis work:

  • " Tozzis figures are related to the failures of the entire European literature of the 20th century and differ from the vanquished Vergas and the Verists fact that their constant defeats take place entirely in the interior of the personalities and they are surrounded by a tragic, gloomy atmosphere, generated by a lyrical alienated landscape and environment. "

From a critical assessment of the great Italian author in Germany can otherwise hardly speak. Tozzi was hardly noticed by the German literary criticism.

Works (selection)

  • La zampogna verde (1911 ), poems
  • La città della Vergine (1913 ), poems
  • Beast (1915 ) ( German beasts ), lyrical fragmentary sketches
  • Le cose più belle di Santa Caterina da Siena ( 1918)
  • Con gli occhi chiusi (1919) (Engl. with closed eyes ), Roman
  • Giovani (1920 ) novel
  • Tre croci (1920 ) (Engl. Three Crosses ), Roman
  • Il Podere ( 1921) (Engl. The homestead ), Roman
  • Ricordi di un impiegato (1927 ) (Engl. memories of an employee ), Roman
  • Novelle (German A mistress ), stories
  • Beast, cose, persone ( dt animals, things, people ), prose miniatures
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