Freitag, 25. November 2016

25.11.2016 - S. Quasimodo3 and Nobel L. 1959 etc...


dali48 and writing books and photographing a horse etc...

 
22.10.2009 - Interpretation of dali48 

He (Giovanni Villani) says here (Croniche Fiorentine) that, for the benefit of his contemporaries, Dante "as a poet thoroughly enjoyed ranting and raving in his Commedia perhaps more than was proper - but possibly his exile was to blame!"...

Not even Ariosto and Tasso were free, not the Abbot Parini, nor Alfieri, nor Foscolo: the rhetoric of these persecuted men - places them in time among the propagators of the voice of man - a voice that seems to cry out in the wilderness - and instead corrodes society's untruths...

The resistance is a moral certainty - not a poetic one...

Europeans know the importance of the Resistance - it has been the shining example of the modern conscience...

The Resistance is the perfect image - of the conflict between the present and the past...

The politician wants men to know how to die courageously - the poet wants men to live courageously...

His (politician) only purpose, as always, is to deprive man of 3 or 4 fundamental liberties - so that in his eternal cycle man continually retrieves - what has been taken from him...

The poet is alone - Around him rises a wall of hate - built with stones thrown by literary mercenaries...

They (men of letters) serve only - I say "serve" - to delay by a few moments the voice of the poet in the world - In time, according to Leonardo da Vinci- "every wrong is made right!"... (S. Quasimodo, Nobel Lec. 1959)


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Donnerstag, 24. November 2016

24.11.2016 - The Intimate3 and Quasimodo etc...


dali48 and studying and playing chess in Tubingen in the 70s etc...
 

27.05.2013 - Interpretation of dali48

The intimate is the innermost - and is always based on a relationship to "God" - to a friend or partner - to familiar people or things - without which we do not feel ourselves as ourselves - not at home... (ARTE, Philosophy 27.10.2009)

After the war in 1945 he (S. Quasimodo, 1901-1968) joined the Italian Communist party, but resigned in protest - when the party insisted that he should write political poems...

Quasimodo's first wife Bice Donetti died in 1948 - and he married the dancer Maria Cumani - They separated permanently in 1960 - His daughter Orietta was born out of wedlock in 1935 to Amelia Specialetti - Quasimodo's last 4 volumes of verse show a continuing concern for social justice - but there are also fond memories of past friends and past loves - His last book of verse was Dare e Avere (1966, To Give and to Have)...

A modernist but acutely conscious of the tension between tradition and innovation - he wrote many essays on literature and translated classical writers and drama - among them such writers as W. Shakespeare, Molière (Tartuffe), Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Virgil, Catullus... (On S. Quasimodo from P.A.C.)


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