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306 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1991
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About the author
Pietro Citati
99 books59 followersHe 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.
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.
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September 8, 2020
L'edizione dei "Promessi sposi" adottata nella mia classe al liceo (Ficara? controllerò, sempre che la trovi) comprendeva estratti di saggi critici ogni due o tre capitoli.
Per la conversione dell'Innominato era inevitabile parlare di quella di Manzoni, e fu qui che scoprii per la prima volta questo Citati che scriveva come un poeta invece che come un critico.
Per la conversione dell'Innominato era inevitabile parlare di quella di Manzoni, e fu qui che scoprii per la prima volta questo Citati che scriveva come un poeta invece che come un critico.
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