Donnerstag, 15. Oktober 2009

26.11.2016 - Salvatore Quasimodo2 and Biography 1959 etc...


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

15.10.2009 - Interpretation of dali48

Between 1930 and 1938, the year he left his government position - he made the acquaintance of many prominent Italian authors and painters...

The recipient of many literary prizes - in 1953, for instance, together with Dylan Thomas, he was awarded the Etna-Taormina International Prize in Poetry - Quasimodo died in Naples on June 14, 1968... (Salvatore Quasimodo, Biography 1959)

Moreover, they (high priests of tradition) are obsessed with allegories of the credible destruction of the world - They do not tolerate chronicles but only ideal figures and attitudes - For them the history of poetry is a gallery of ghosts! - Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship (see money-dictatorship since ca. 2008 etc. - d.48) and mark the origin of the Hermeneutic movement...

I knew that young men quoted verses from my lyrics in their love letters - others were written on the walls of jails by political prisoners (see Nelson Mandela etc. - d.48)... - What a time to be writing poetry! We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude - Were such verses categories of the soul - great truths?

Traditional European poetry, as yet unrestricted, was unaware of our presence: the Latin province, under the aegis of its Caesars (see De Bello Gallico etc. - d.48), fostered bloodshed, not lessons in humanism...

Poetics and philosophies disintegrate "when the trees fall - and the walls collapse"... (S. Quasimodo, Nobel L. 1959)


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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)


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