History and Chronicle of the Songbook - Couverture souple

Saba, Umberto; Sartarelli, Stephen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1878818392 ISBN 13 : 9781878818393

Editeur : Sheep Meadow Press,U.S., 1998

Synopsis

Book by Saba Umberto

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

The moral physiognomy of Saba is very powerfully alive in his work, and makes him, now and forever, a great author. To this vast, complex, long-suffering personality, his poems bear witness, and from it draw their light...I have the impression that Saba, in our day, has been just discovered, and that the task of evaluating the full scope of his greatness will have to fall to others, when distance will have further clarified the perspectives. Saba will have to wait. Yet how many in Europe, can be as certain in their wait as he?' --Quarantotti Gambini

'Saba's poetry seems like the pure sound of a voice, a voice nearly freed from the bonds of words. The monody is pure feeling, in a musical state. The Language of Italian poetry which has almost always sought transfiguration in plasticity and relief, has rarely known an exception so singular. Saba attains the lied as if without realising it.' --Eugenio Montale

Biographie de l'auteur :

Umberto Saba was born Umbeto Poli in 1883; by the time of his birth his father had deserted the family. He studied the violin and began writing poetry when he was about seventeen. He attended Dante A'Lighieri in Trieste, then, briefly, its Academy of Commerce and Nautical Science, and later worked for a commercial firm in the city. He was conscripted to the Italian army's infantry in 1908. The next year he marries Carolina Wolfler. Recalled to the army in 1915, he suffered a breakdown and was hospitalized. When he returned to Trieste in 1919 he purchased the bookshop where he was to spend the greater part of his life. His friends included Svevo, Ungaretti, Giacomo Debenedetti and Carlo Levi. Saba was sixty-three when he won his first national literary award, the Viareggio Prize. He died in Gorizia in 1957.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Sheep Meadow Press,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1878818392
• ISBN 13: 9781878818393
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 262