Tommaso Landolfi

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

Short Biography

A noble family entstammend, Tommaso Landolfi spent his childhood and youth alternately in Pico Farnese, Rome and Florence, where he obtained his degree in 1932 with a thesis on the Russian writer Anna Akhmatova. His profound knowledge of Russian, French and German literature is reflected in a highly productive work as a translator, which is maintained Landolfi time of his life. In Florence, where he intellectuals in the famous literary café " Le Rosse Giubbe " joins, he works for several literary magazines (among other Letteratura and Campo di Marte ) before 1937 his first collection of short stories published under the title Dialogo dei Massimi sistemi. This is followed by further volumes of stories ( Il mar delle blatte e altre storie, 1939 La Spada, 1942) and novels (La pietra lunar Scene della vita di provincia, 1939. Le due zittelle, 1946), in which always the fantastic and grotesque in center of the narrative is. This voltage will remain characteristic of Landolfis work and the author in literary criticism - fit into a number of narrators that have established a possible " Italian Surrealism " ( Buzzati, Savinio, Delfini ) - probably not quite right.

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

1996 was launched by the Centro Studi Landolfiani Landolfis daughter.

Works in German translation

  • Stories, translated by Charlotte Jenny, Frankfurt, Suhrkamp 1966.
  • Nightshade, translated by Heinz Riedt, Reinbek, Rowohlt 1987.
  • The Moonstone, Freiburg, Beck, 1989.
  • LA BEERS YOU PECHEUR. The beer of the fisherman or the grave of a sinner, translated by Heinz Riedt, Reinbek, Rowohlt 1994.
  • Two late Virgin, translated by Heinz Riedt, Reinbek, Rowohlt, 1996.
  • Rien va, translated by Ragni Maria Gschwendt, Reinbek, Rowohlt 1999.

Works

  • Dialogo dei Massimi sistemi, 1937.
  • La pietra lunar, 1939.
  • Il Mar delle altre storie e blatte, 1939.
  • La Spada, 1942.
  • Il principe infelice, 1943.
  • Le due zittelle, 1946.
  • Racconto d' autunno, 1947. "Autumn - story" Rowohlt 1990.
  • Cancroregina, 1950.
  • La bière you pecheur, 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 societÃ, 1962.
  • Rien va, 1963.
  • Scene della vita di Cagliostro, 1963.
  • Tre racconti, 1964.
  • Un amore del nostro tempo, 1965.
  • Racconti Impossibili, 1966.
  • In mois, 1967.
  • Colloqui, 1967.
  • Un di paniere 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.
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