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Ennio Flaiano

Born

in Pescara, Italy

March 05, 1910

Died

November 20, 1972

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Flaiano wrote for Cineillustrato, Oggi, Il Mondo, Il Corriere della Sera and other prominent Italian newspapers and magazines.
In 1947, he won the Strega Prize for his novel, Tempo di uccidere (The Short Cut). Set in Ethiopia during the Italian invasion (1935–36), the novel tells the story of an Italian officer who accidentally kills an Ethiopian woman and is then ravaged by the awareness of his act. The barren landscape around the protagonist hints at an interior emptiness and meaninglessness. This is one of the few Italian literary works (which has been constantly in print for sixty years) dealing with the misdeeds of Italian colonialism in Eastern Africa.
In 1971 he suffered a first heart-attack. "All will have to change", he wrote in his ...more

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	Tempo di uccidere 3.85 avg rating — 1,386 ratings — published 1947 — 17 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
	Diario notturno 4.01 avg rating — 355 ratings — published 1956 — 7 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
	Diario degli errori 3.93 avg rating — 342 ratings — published 1976 — 7 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 solitudine del satiro 4.31 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 1989 — 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
	Autobiografia del blu di Prussia 3.78 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 1974 — 6 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
	Una e una notte 3.41 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 1959 — 6 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
	Le ombre bianche by Ennio Flaiano, Anna Longoni (Editor) 3.93 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 1972 — 6 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
	Frasario essenziale per passare inosservati in società by Ennio Flaiano, Giorgio Manganelli (Contributor) 3.90 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 1986 — 6 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
	Melampus: La metamorfosi amorosa di una donna 3.77 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1974 — 7 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 gioco e il massacro 3.73 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 1970 — 7 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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“In Italia la linea più breve fra due punti è l’arabesco.”
― Ennio Flaiano

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“Il mio gatto fa quello che io vorrei fare, con meno letteratura.”
― Ennio Flaiano, Frasario essenziale per passare inosservati in società

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“Afflitto da un complesso di parità. Non si sente inferiore a nessuno.”
― Ennio Flaiano, Diario degli errori

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