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Poesie e prose
Per poche altre figure della lirica italiana novecentesca si può dire, come scrisse di Vittorio Sereni l'amico e critico Pier Vincenzo Mengaldo, che "l'uomo e il poeta facevano tutt'uno". Per il poeta di Luino, infatti, la poesia era una divorante passione, vissuta senza falsi pudori; una passione fatta di attese, della capacità di selezionare i componimenti, tanto che ognuno appare a noi inevitabile. come Leopardi, come Mallarmé, Sereni concentra il suo estro su pochi testi, essenziali, derivati da una assoluta necessità interiore e dotati di una impareggiabile finitezza formale. Ma accanto all'esigenza di scrivere versi, Sereni sentì altrettanto potente quella che egli stesso chiamava "la tentazione della prosa". Dell'una e dell'altra produzione dà conto questo ricco volume che riunisce integralmente le raccolte poetiche, da "Frontiera" (1941) a "Stella variabile" (1981), la sua scelta di traduzioni "Il musicante di Saint-Merry", i due volumi di prose, "Gli immediati dintorni" e "La traversata di Milano", infine un'ampia scelta di testi critici dedicati all'arte e alla letteratura. Con uno scritto di Pier Vincenzo Mengaldo.
- GenresPoetry
1260 pages, Paperback
First published June 11, 2013
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About the author
Vittorio Sereni
57 books16 followersVittorio Sereni (27 July 1913 - 10 February 1983) was an Italian poet, author, editor and translator of Jewish heritage. His poetry frequently addressed the themes of 20th-century Italian history, such as Fascism, Italy's military defeat in World War II, and its postwar resurgence.
Born at Luino, Sereni graduated from the University of Milan in 1936. In 1938, he co-founded the literary review Corrente di Vita. In 1941, he published Frontiera, his first collection of poetry. He was drafted into the Italian Army during World War II: captured by Allied forces in 1943, he spent the rest of the war in POW camps in Algeria and Morocco. These experiences formed the basis for his second poetry book, Diario d'Algeria.
After the war, Sereni worked as a teacher and literary critic. From the mid-1950s until his death in 1983, he was literary director of the Arnoldo Mondadori Editore publishing house. His later collections of poetry included Gli strumenti umani (1965) and Stella variabile (1981). He was a prolific translator, rendering into Italian the works of Pierre Corneille, Paul Valéry and William Carlos Williams, among others. His collection of translated poems, Il musicante di Saint-Merry, was awarded the 1982 Bagutta Prize.
Sereni's works are collected in English in The Selected Poetry and Prose of Vittorio Sereni: A Bilingual Edition (2006), translated by Marcus Perryman and Peter Robinson.
Born at Luino, Sereni graduated from the University of Milan in 1936. In 1938, he co-founded the literary review Corrente di Vita. In 1941, he published Frontiera, his first collection of poetry. He was drafted into the Italian Army during World War II: captured by Allied forces in 1943, he spent the rest of the war in POW camps in Algeria and Morocco. These experiences formed the basis for his second poetry book, Diario d'Algeria.
After the war, Sereni worked as a teacher and literary critic. From the mid-1950s until his death in 1983, he was literary director of the Arnoldo Mondadori Editore publishing house. His later collections of poetry included Gli strumenti umani (1965) and Stella variabile (1981). He was a prolific translator, rendering into Italian the works of Pierre Corneille, Paul Valéry and William Carlos Williams, among others. His collection of translated poems, Il musicante di Saint-Merry, was awarded the 1982 Bagutta Prize.
Sereni's works are collected in English in The Selected Poetry and Prose of Vittorio Sereni: A Bilingual Edition (2006), translated by Marcus Perryman and Peter Robinson.
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