Literature has the task and the meaning of continuing the tradition of narration, because we can stand the test of our life only by telling. (Peter Bichsel)
The Zibaldone from Giacomo Leopardi is a vast collection of notes and reflections, which the poet began to fix when he was nineteen (in 1817) and which he continued to enrich until five years after his death (in 1832). In this important work there are dazzling, bitter, ironic, rarely serene and detached insights.
Mikhail Bulgakov he is considered one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century. Many of his writings were published posthumously. The master and Margherita it was published in 1967, nearly thirty years after his death, which secured him immortal fame. Several films have been made from his novels. The son of a Kiev theological academy professor, he was engulfed in the maelstrom of historical events that shook Russia in the first half of the twentieth century, from the end of the Tsarist empire to the affirmation of communism. He wrote comedies and literary criticism works.
Writer Scipio Slataper (Trieste, 14 July 1888 – Gorizia, 3 December 1915) was an Italian writer and soldier, irredentist, among the best known in the literary history of Trieste. Killed in war on Mount Podgora, (a hill west of Gorizia, on the right bank of the Isonzo river, which between June 1915 and August 1916, during the First World War, was the scene of violent clashes between the Italian army and the Austro-Hungarian one), is the author of the autobiographical work My Karst.
The Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borgesin the Introduction a Jack London (Concentric deaths), wrote: “Jack London died at the age of forty and exhausted the life of the body and that of the spirit to the dregs. Neither of them satisfied him entirely, and he sought in death the dreary splendor of nothingness. ‘
Maria Luisa Spaziani, poet candidate for the Nobel Prize, liked to say that her poetry tended to the “vertical” because she tried to look beyond, towards the sublime starting from the everyday. She, an artist of words, she was able to use similes that enchanted. With her poem she wanted to “speak to the world” and said that each of us is “a miner of himself who descends into the viscera of the soul.” Spaziani knew the strength of psychoanalysis and literature and above all of spirituality as therapy.
According to the professor of modern and contemporary Italian literature, Antonia Arslan, Dino Buzzatiauthor of Desert of the Tartars it is perhaps the Italian writer of the twentieth century who has become a classic, an integral part of our culture and even of the common vocabulary. His books have been continually reprinted and they continue to be read in schools. In his works everything contributes to evoke sensations and perceptions that today we feel very modern, that is, that reality is fluid and ultimately unknowable.
Alessandro Bonsanti writer born in Florence in 1904 and died in 1984, he was mayor of the city. A scholar of Marcel Proust, he admired the style and love of literature of the great French writer. In 1941 he directed the Vieusseux cabinet succeeding Eugenio Montale, Nobel Prize for literature, considered by the Florentine novelist to be «the master in the way of thinking and in the behavior of thought».
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