collettivo culturale tuttomondo salvatore quasimodo (italia)
Ognuno sta solo sul cuor della terra
trafitto da un raggio di Sole:
ed è subito sera.
Salvatore Quasimodo, Ed è subito sera, 1942
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Everyone is alone on the heart of the earth
pierced by a ray of sun:
and suddenly it’s evening
Salvatore Quasimodo, And suddenly it’s evening, 1942
traduzione: Jack Bevan
foto: Salvatore_Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo (Modica, 1901 – Napoli, 1968) è stato un poeta e traduttore italiano.
Considerato uno dei principali esponenti della corrente poetica dell’ermetismo, è stato inoltre traduttore di molti classici greci e delle opere teatrali di Molière e Shakespeare.
Nel 1959 è stato insignito del Premio Nobel per la Letteratura.
La fase più creativa dell’opera poetica di Quasimodo si può far risalire ad Acque e terre (1930), Oboe sommerso (1932), e a Ed è subito sera (1942).
Salvatore Quasimodo (August 20, 1901 – June 14, 1968) was an Italian poet and translator.
In 1959, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature “for his lyrical poetry, which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times”.
Along with Giuseppe Ungaretti and Eugenio Montale, he was one of the foremost Italian poets of the 20th century.
Traditional literary critique divides Quasimodo’s work into two major periods: the hermetic period until World War II and the post-hermetic era until his death. Although these periods are distinct, they are to be seen as a single poetical quest. This quest or exploration for a unique language took him through various stages and various modalities of expression.
As an intelligent and clever poet, Quasimodo used a hermetical, “closed” language to sketch recurring motifs like Sicily, religion and death. Subsequently, the translation of authors from Roman and Greek Antiquity enabled him to extend his linguistic toolkit. The disgust and sense of absurdity of World War II also had its impact on the poet’s language … keep on reading Wikipedia
collettivo culturale tuttomondo salvatore quasimodo (italia)
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