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Adelphi Edizioni
Adelphi Edizioni is a publishing house in Milan, Italy that specializes in works of fiction, philosophy and science and in classics translated into Italian. History Adelphi Edizioni S.p.A. was founded in 1962 by Luciano Foà and Roberto Olivetti. It has published works by several famous Italian and international authors and a literary magazine called ''Adelphiana''. Roberto Calasso worked at Adelphi Edizioni since 1962. He became the majority owner of Adelphi circa 2015. Adephi started by publishing a critical edition of Nietzsche in collaboration with Éditions Gallimard and Walter de Gruyter that the established Italian publisher Giulio Einaudi editore had declined to take on. Adelphi has been associated with promoting Middle-European culture from the 1970s onwards Stefano Paol''L'Italia ignorava l' Oriente, lo scoprimmo noi'' interview with Roberto Calasso, in ''Corriere della Sera'', May 3rd, 2010, p.31Paolo Di Stefano (2010) ''Potresti anche dirmi grazie'p.86-7/ref> and pub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italy
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical region. Italy is also considered part of Western Europe, and shares land borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia and the enclaved microstates of Vatican City and San Marino. It has a territorial exclave in Switzerland, Campione. Italy covers an area of , with a population of over 60 million. It is the third-most populous member state of the European Union, the sixth-most populous country in Europe, and the tenth-largest country in the continent by land area. Italy's capital and largest city is Rome. Italy was the native place of many civilizations such as the Italic peoples and the Etruscans, while due to its central geographic location in Southern Europe and the Mediterranean, the country has also historically been home ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack London
John Griffith Chaney (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916), better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of animal rights, workers’ rights and socialism.Swift, John N. "Jack London's ‘The Unparalleled Invasion’: Germ Warfare, Eugenics, and Cultural Hygiene." American Literary Realism, vol. 35, no. 1, 2002, pp. 59–71. .Hensley, John R. "Eugenics and Social Darwinism in Stanley Waterloo's ‘The Story of Ab’ and Jack London's ‘Before Adam.’" Studies in Popular Culture, vol. 25, no. 1, 2002, pp. 23–37. . London wrote several works dealing with these topics, such as his dy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ennio Flaiano
Ennio Flaiano (5 March 1910 – 20 November 1972) was an Italian screenwriter, playwright, novelist, journalist, and drama critic. Best known for his work with Federico Fellini, Flaiano co-wrote ten screenplays with the Italian director, including ''La Strada'' (1954), ''La Dolce Vita'' (1960), and ''8½''. Biography Flaiano wrote for ''Cineillustrato'', ''Oggi (magazine), Oggi'', ''Il Mondo (magazine), Il Mondo'', ''Il Corriere della Sera'', ''Omnibus (magazine), Omnibus'' and other prominent Italian newspapers and magazines. In 1947, he won the Strega Prize for his novel, ''Tempo di uccidere ''(variously translated as ''Miriam'', ''A Time to Kill'', and ''The Short Cut''). Set in Ethiopia during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, Italian invasion (1935–36), the novel tells the story of an Italian officer who rapes and subsequently kills an Ethiopian woman and is then tormented by the memory of his act. The barren landscape around the protagonist hints at an interior emptiness ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goffredo Parise
Goffredo Parise (8 December 1929 in Vicenza – 31 August 1986 in Treviso) was an Italian writer, journalist, and screenwriter. He won the Viareggio Prize in 1965 for his novel ''Il padrone'' ''(The Boss)'' and the Strega Prize in 1982 for ''Sillabario n.2''. Works *''The Dead Boy and the Comets'', translated by Marianne Ceconi, New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1953 *''Don Gastone and the Ladies'', trans. by Stuart Hood, New York: Knopf, 1955 *''The Boss'', trans. by William Weaver, New York: Knopf, 1966 *''Solitudes'', trans. by Isabel Quigly, introduction by Natalia Ginzburg, New York: Vintage, 1982 *''Abecedary'', trans. by James Marcus, Marlboro, Vt.: Marlboro Press, 1990 *''The Smell of Blood'', trans by John Shepley, Evanston, Ill.: Marlboro Press/Northwestern, 2003 Selected filmography * ''Boccaccio '70'' (1962) * '' La cuccagna'' (1962) * '' Careless'' (1962) * '' Agostino'' (1962) * ''Oggi, domani, dopodomani ''Kiss the Other Sheik'' ( it, Oggi, domani, do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommaso Landolfi
Tommaso Landolfi (9 August 1908 – 8 July 1979) was an Italian writer, translator and literary critic. His numerous grotesque tales and novels, sometimes on the border of speculative fiction, science fiction and Realism (arts), realism, place him in a unique and unorthodox position among Italian writers. He won a number of awards, including the prestigious Strega Prize. Life He was born in Pico, Italy, Pico, now in the province of Frosinone (then in Terra di Lavoro, province of Terra di Lavoro, the roughly modern-day province of Caserta), to a noble family. In 1932, he graduated in Russian language and literature at the University of Florence. During his time in Florence he worked on various magazines including ''Letteratura'' and ''Campo di Marte''. He later worked on other magazines and newspapers including ''Oggi'', ''Il Mondo'' and ''Corriere della Sera''. He focused his translation efforts upon Russian and German authors such as Fyodor Dostoevsky, Aleksandr Pushkin, Nikola ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Brelich
Mario Brelich (1910–1982) was an Italian author born in Budapest Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population ... to an Italian father and Hungarian mother. Works *''The Work of Betrayal''. Translated by Raymond Rosenthal. (Marlboro, Vermont: Marlboro Press, 1989) . *''Navigator of the Flood'' (Marlboro, Vermont: Marlboro Press, 1991) . *''The Holy Embrace''. Translated by John Shepley (Marlboro, Vermont: Marlboro Press, 1994) . Originally published as ''Il Sacro Amplesso'' (Milan: Adelphi Edizioni s.p.a., 1972). *''Giuditta'' (Milano : Adelphi, 2008) References 1910 births 1982 deaths Writers from Budapest 20th-century Italian novelists 20th-century Hungarian male writers {{Hungary-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benedetto Croce
Benedetto Croce (; 25 February 1866 – 20 November 1952) was an Italian idealist philosopher, historian, and politician, who wrote on numerous topics, including philosophy, history, historiography and aesthetics. In most regards, Croce was a liberal, although he opposed ''laissez-faire'', free trade, and had considerable influence on other Italian intellectuals, including both Marxist Antonio Gramsci and Italian Fascist Giovanni Gentile. Croce was the president of PEN International, the worldwide writers' association, from 1949 until 1952. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature sixteen times. He is also noted for his "major contributions to the rebirth of Italian democracy." Biography Croce was born in Pescasseroli in the Abruzzo region of Italy. His family was influential and wealthy, and he was raised in a very strict Catholic environment. Around the age of 16, he quit Catholicism and developed a personal philosophy of spiritual life, in which religion cannot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonardo Sciascia
Leonardo Sciascia (; 8 January 1921 – 20 November 1989) was an Italian writer, novelist, essayist, playwright, and politician. Some of his works have been made into films, including '' Porte Aperte'' (1990; ''Open Doors''), '' Cadaveri Eccellenti'' (1976; ''Illustrious Corpses''), '' Todo Modo'' (also 1976) and '' Il giorno della civetta'' (1968; ''The Day of the Owl''). Biography Sciascia was born in Racalmuto, Sicily. In 1935, his family moved to Caltanissetta, where Sciascia studied under Vitaliano Brancati, who would become his model in writing and introduce him to French novelists. From Giuseppe Granata, future Communist member of the Italian Senate, Sciascia learned about the French Enlightenment and American literature. In 1944, he married Maria Andronico, an elementary school teacher in Racalmuto. In 1948, his brother committed suicide, an event which profoundly impacted Sciascia. Sciascia's first work, ''Favole della dittatura'' (''Fables of the Dictatorship''), a sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Unbearable Lightness Of Being
''The Unbearable Lightness of Being'' ( cs, Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí) is a 1984 novel by Milan Kundera, about two women, two men, a dog and their lives in the 1968 Prague Spring period of Czechoslovak history. Although written in 1982, the novel was not published until two years later, in a French translation (as ''L'insoutenable légèreté de l'être''). The original Czech text was published the following year. It was also translated to English from Czech by Michael Henry Heim and published in ''The New Yorkers March 19, 1984, issue under the "Fiction" section. Premise ''The Unbearable Lightness of Being'' takes place mainly in Prague in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It explores the artistic and intellectual life of Czech society from the Prague Spring of 1968 to the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union and three other Warsaw Pact countries and its aftermath through the lives of two separate pairs of people and those around them. Characters *Tomáš: A Czech su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
101 Zen Stories
''101 Zen Stories'' is a 1919 compilation of Zen koans including 19th and early 20th century anecdotes compiled by Nyogen Senzaki, and a translation of ''Shasekishū'', written in the 13th century by Japanese Zen master Mujū (無住) (literally, "non-dweller"). The book was reprinted by Paul Reps as part of '' Zen Flesh, Zen Bones''. Well-known koans in the collection include ''A Cup of Tea'' (1), ''The Sound of One Hand'' (21), ''No Water, No Moon'' (29), and ''Everything is Best'' (31). See also * ''Blue Cliff Record'' * ''The Gateless Gate'' * ''Book of Equanimity ''Book of Equanimity'' or ''Book of Serenity'' or ''Book of Composure'' (Chinese: 從容錄, Cóngróng lù; Japanese: 従容錄, ''Shōyōroku'') is a book compiled by Wansong Xingxiu (1166–1246), and first published in 1224. The book comprise ...'' References External links 101 Zen Koans Zen koan collections 1919 books {{zen-book-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera (, ; born 1 April 1929) is a Czech writer who went into exile in France in 1975, becoming a naturalised French citizen in 1981. Kundera's Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, then conferred again in 2019. He "sees himself as a French writer and insists his work should be studied as French literature and classified as such in book stores". Kundera's best-known work is ''The Unbearable Lightness of Being''. Prior to the Velvet Revolution of 1989, the communist régime in Czechoslovakia banned his books. He leads a low-profile life and rarely speaks to the media. He was thought to be a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was also a nominee for other awards. He was awarded the 1985 Jerusalem Prize, in 1987 the Austrian State Prize for European Literature, and the 2000 Herder Prize. In 2021, he received the Golden Order of Merit from the president of Slovenia, Borut Pahor. Biography Kundera was born in 1929 at Purkyňova 6 (6 Purkyně Street) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Chatwin
Charles Bruce Chatwin (13 May 194018 January 1989) was an English travel writer, novelist and journalist. His first book, ''In Patagonia'' (1977), established Chatwin as a travel writer, although he considered himself instead a storyteller, interested in bringing to light unusual tales. He won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel ''On the Black Hill'' (1982), while his novel '' Utz'' (1988) was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In 2008 ''The Times'' ranked Chatwin as number 46 on their list of "50 Greatest British Writers Since 1945." Chatwin was born in Sheffield. After completing his secondary education at Marlborough College, he went to work at the age of 18 at Sotheby's in London, where he gained an extensive knowledge of art and eventually ran the auction house's Antiquities and Impressionist Art departments. In 1966 he left Sotheby's to read archaeology at the University of Edinburgh, but he abandoned his studies after two years to pursue a career as a write ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
