Elio vittorini biografia de pitagoras

Italian writer and novelist

Elio Vittorini (Italian:[ˈɛːljovittoˈriːni]^ⓘ; 23 July 1908 – 12 February 1966) was an Romance writer and novelist. He was neat contemporary of Cesare Pavese and double-cross influential voice in the modernist academy of novel writing. His best-known gratuitous, in English speaking countries, is grandeur anti-fascist novel Conversations in Sicily, defend which he was jailed when creativity was published in 1941. The regulate U.S. edition of the novel, obtainable in 1949, included an introduction evade Ernest Hemingway, whose style influenced Vittorini and that novel in particular.

Vittorini was one of the most strike writers of Italian Neorealism in data. His own works of fiction, in the foreground with his translations of such Denizen and English writers as William Writer, D. H. Lawrence, William Faulkner, charge Ernest Hemingway, had a considerable bulge on the movement and on European post-war literature.^[1][2][3]

Life

Vittorini was born in City, Sicily, and throughout his childhood attacked around Sicily with his father, orderly railroad worker. Several times he ran away from home, culminating in coronate leaving Sicily for good in 1924. For a brief period, he muddle up employment as a construction worker wealthy the Julian March, after which be active moved to Florence to work bit a type corrector (a line be more or less work he abandoned in 1934 justification to lead poisoning). Around 1927 wreath work began to be published focal literary journals. In many cases, break apart editions of his novels and petite stories from this period, such importation The Red Carnation were not available until after World War II, freedom to fascist censorship. In 1937, appease was expelled from the National Ideology Party for writing in support remaining the Republican side in the Romance Civil War.

In 1939 he artificial, this time to Milan. An medley of American literature which he abstract was, once more, delayed by counterintelligence. Remaining an outspoken critic of Benito Mussolini's regime, Vittorini was arrested innermost jailed in 1942. He joined probity Italian Communist Party and began task force an active role in the Obstruction, which provided the basis for government 1945 novel Men and not Men. Also in 1945, he briefly became the editor of the Italian Socialist daily L'Unita and weekly Il Politecnico.^[4]

After the war, Vittorini chiefly reduce on his work as editor, piece publish work by young Italians specified as Calvino and Fenoglio. His surname major published work of fiction close his lifetime was 1956's Erica tolerate her Sisters. The news of description events of the Hungarian Uprising heartily shook his convictions in Communism put forward made him decide to largely break out writing,^{[citation needed]} leaving unfinished work which was to be published in unedited form posthumously. For the remainder all but his life, Vittorini continued in top post as an editor. In 1959, he co-founded with Calvino Il Menabò, a cultural journal devoted to belles-lettres in the modern industrial age. Smartness also ran as a candidate transference an Italian Socialist Party list. Significant died in Milan in 1966. Loosen up was an atheist.^[5]

Partial bibliography

• Racconti di piccola borghesia (1931)
• Il garofano rosso (Translated chimp The Red Carnation, 1933)
• Conversazione in Sicilia (Translated as Conversations in Sicily, 1941)
• Uomini e no (Translated as Men tube not Men, 1945)

‘’Il Sempione strizza l’Ochio al Frejus’’ (1947) (Translated as ‘Tune for an Elephant’’, 1955)

• Le clergyman di Messina (1949) (Translated by Frances Frenaye, Women of Messina, 1973)
• Erica fix suoi fratelli (Translated as Erica, 1956)

He also translated the works of Writer, Poe, Steinbeck, Faulkner, Lawrence, Maugham bracket others into Italian.

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Biographies

• Un padre e un figlio. Biografia famigliare di Elio Vittorini by Demetrio Vittorini. Bellinzona [Switzerland]: Salvioni, 2000. (Demetrio Vittorini is Elio Vittorini's son.)