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Pietro Citati

Born

in Florence, Italy

February 20, 1930

Died

July 28, 2022

Website

http://www.pietrocitati.net/

Genre

Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction

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He was a famous Italian writer and literary critic.

He wrote critical biographies of Goethe, Alexander the Great, Kafka and Marcel Proust as well as a short but unforgettable memoir on his thirty-year friendship with Italo Calvino.

In Kafka, Pietro Citati has the great writer declare: "'I am like you, I am a man like you, I suffer and rejoice as you do, like a meticulous and buoyant angel, a being who lives far away in a world that did not belong even to him."

From 1973 to 1988, he contributed to the cultural section of Corriere della Sera and had been the literary critic for la Repubblica since 1988. ...more

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Average rating: 3.87 · 4,868 ratings · 591 reviews · 99 distinct works • Similar authors

	La morte della farfalla 3.82 avg rating — 544 ratings — published 2006 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La mente colorata: Ulisse e l'Odissea 4.17 avg rating — 177 ratings — published 2002 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Leopardi 3.85 avg rating — 183 ratings — published 2010 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kafka by Pietro Citati, Raymond Rosenthal (Translator) 4.02 avg rating — 145 ratings — published 1987 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alessandro Magno 3.44 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 1990 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tolstoj by Pietro Citati, Federico Fellini (Contributor) 3.94 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 1983 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La luce della notte 4.12 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 1996 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Il male assoluto: Nel cuore del romanzo dell'Ottocento 4.06 avg rating — 97 ratings — published 2000 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La colomba pugnalata: Proust e la «Recherche» 4.05 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 1995 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vita breve di Katherine Mansfield 3.31 avg rating — 90 ratings — published 1980 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Bisogna essere eroici per abitare in tempi così diversi da quelli del proprio modello: ma Don Chisciotte, per l’appunto, era un eroe.”
― Pietro Citati, Il Don Chisciotte

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“If we want know the meaning of existence, we must open a book: over there, in the darkest chapter, there’s a sentence written especially for us.”
― Pietro Citati

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