Elio Vittorini
Elio Vittorini | |
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Born | Syracuse, Sicily, Italy | 23 July 1908
Died | 12 February 1966 Milan, Italy | (aged 57)
Occupation | Writer, novelist, editor, politician |
Language | Italian |
Elio Vittorini (Italian:
Vittorini was one of the most prominent writers of Italian Neorealism in literature. His own works of fiction, along with his translations of such American and English writers as
Life
Vittorini was born in Syracuse, Sicily, and throughout his childhood moved around Sicily with his father, a railroad worker. Several times he ran away from home, culminating in his leaving Sicily for good in 1924. For a brief period, he found employment as a construction worker in the Julian March, after which he moved to Florence to work as a type corrector (a line of work he abandoned in 1934 due to lead poisoning). Around 1927 his work began to be published in literary journals. In many cases, separate editions of his novels and short stories from this period, such as The Red Carnation were not published until after World War II, due to fascist censorship. In 1937, he was expelled from the National Fascist Party for writing in support of the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War.
In 1939 he moved, this time to
After the war, Vittorini chiefly concentrated on his work as editor, helping publish work by young Italians such as
Partial bibliography
- Racconti di piccola borghesia (1931)
- Il garofano rosso (Translated as The Red Carnation, 1933)
- Conversazione in Sicilia (Translated as Conversations in Sicily, 1941)
- Uomini e no (Translated as Men and not Men, 1945)
- Le donne di Messina (1949) (Translated by Frances Frenaye, Women of Messina, 1973)
- Erica e suoi fratelli (Translated as Erica, 1956)
He also translated the works of
and others into Italian.References
- ^ https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elio-Vittorini
- ^ "Italian literature - Hermetic, Renaissance, Poetry | Britannica".
- ^ "Neorealism | Post-WWII Aesthetic & Social Realism | Britannica".
- ISBN 978-0-226-49368-8.
- ^ Berti Arnoaldi, Francesco, L'amico cattolico, Edizioni Pendragon, 2005, p. 11
Sources
Biographies
- Un padre e un figlio. Biografia famigliare di Elio Vittorini by Demetrio Vittorini. Bellinzona [Switzerland]: Salvioni, 2000. (Demetrio Vittorini is Elio Vittorini's son.)