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Posthumous Diary

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Solitude, despair, fear of death and what alleviates it all: friendships that come of shared interests and the consolations of art.

208 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1986

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Eugenio Montale

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Eugenio Montale was born on October 12, 1896 in Genoa, Italy. He was the youngest son of Domenico Montale and Giuseppina (Ricci) Montale. They were brought up in a business atmosphere, as their father was a trader in chemicals. Ill health cut short his formal education and he was therefore a self-taught man free from conditioning except that of his own will and person. He spent his summers at the family villa in a village. This small village was near the Ligurian Riviera, an area which has had a profound influence on his poetry and other works. Originally Montale aspired to be an opera singer and trained under the famous baritone Ernesto Sivori. Surprisingly he changed his profession and went on to become a poet who can be considered the greatest of the twentieth century’s Italian poets and one who won the prestigious Nobel Prize in Literature in 1975 "for his distinctive poetry which, with great artistic sensitivity, has interpreted human values under the sign of an outlook on life with no illusions."

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March 20, 2018
Eugenio Montale - un uomo, un poeta, consapevole di essere alla fine del suo tempo e alla fine di un'era. Un'unica paura: andarsene in silenzio.
Montale sognava "una morte che vive" e realizza il suo sogno con questo progetto. Poesie lasciate alla cura dell'amica (nonché sua musa) Annalisa Cima, con l'intento di farle stampare solo dopo la sua morte e in tempi ben precisi. Sessantasei poesie in tutto, per rivivere nella parola.
Poesie docili in cui stanco si arrende alle incertezze di una vita vissuta, tuttavia non risparmia nemmeno critiche nei confronti di un mondo e di un futuro fagocitato dai rumori e dai computer, in cui chissà se la parola (e quindi il pensiero) troverà ancora spazio.
A questo proposito non posso non citare che le sue stesse parole:
"A sufficienza ne abbiamo di un mondo
che già scoppia. Rumori di motori
sculture fatte a strati, libri
che s'ammucchiano su tutti gli scaffali.
La raffica c'investe, induce ad acquistare
fin l'ultimo giornale. Poi tutto brucerà
dans l'espace d'un matin. Ignoro
quali sventure porterà con sè
il trionfo del caduco e se
si salveranno poche parole imperiture."
Spero che tra le poche parole imperiture si salvino pure le sue.
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