Mittwoch, 14. Oktober 2009

28.11.2016 - Quasimodo2 and 1930 and modern taste etc...


dali48 and writing books and photographing "flora and fauna" etc...
 

14.10.2009 - Interpretation of dali48    

Quasimodo made his debut as early as 1930 - but it was not until the 40s and 50s that he established his position as one of Italy's most outstanding poets, and by this time his reputation had become international - He belongs to the same generation as Silone, Moravia, and Vittorini, that is, the generation of left-wing authors who were able to prove their worth only after the fall of Fascism...

The relics of the ancient Greek temples on the island, the theatres near the Ionian Sea, Arethusa's fountain, so famed in legend, the gigantic ruins at Girgenti and Slinunte - what a playground for a child's imagination... (S. Quasimodo, Pres. Sp. 1959)

His subsequent translations, which range from the Greek and Latin poets (Sophokles, Aeschylus, Euripides, Ovid, Vergil etc.) to Shakespeare and Molière and 20th-century writers (Neruda, E.E. Cummings, Aiken etc.), reflect his full appreciation of the original works - as well as his modern taste and sensibility... (S. Quasimodo, Biography 1959)


Annex2 to the blogs of dali48



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