Luigi Malerba
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Luigi Malerba
(1927–). Best known as a novelist but also a dramatist and children's writer of note. He was a member of the Gruppo 63 and already displays an imaginative interest in modernist ideas on literary self-reflexiveness in his first novel, La scoperta dell'alfabeto (1963). But social critique is at least as important a strand in his work. Already in Il serpente (1966) the play of wit and sarcasm is couched in deliberately unsophisticated language in a attempt to represent the disappearing peasant society of his native Emilia. His work remained intellectually demanding, however. In Il pianeta azzurro (1986) the targets have become the corruption and malaise of the political system of the First Republic. Il fuoco greco (1990) is a historical novel set in 10th-c. Byzantium, while Le pietre volanti (1992), is cast as a diary in which a painter reflects on his life against the background of an intriguingly futuristic world.
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Luigi Malerba
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| Born | November 11, 1927 Berceto, Province of Parma, Italy |
| Died | May 8, 2008 (aged 80) Rome, Italy |
| Occupation | Novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, essayist |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Period | 1950s to 2000s |
| Genres | Historical novel |
| Notable work(s) | The Serpent, What Is This Buzzing? Do You Hear It Too? |
| Notable award(s) | Prix Médicis étranger 1970, Viareggio Prize 1992 |
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Luigi Malerba (born Luigi Bonardi; November 11, 1927 – May 8, 2008) was an Italian author who wrote short stories (often written with Tonino Guerra), historical novels, and screenplays, and who co-founded the Gruppo 63, based on Marxism and Structuralism. Umberto Eco said that "Malerba was defined post-modern, but that's not all true, because he is maliciously ironic, unpredictable, and ambiguous".[1] He was one of the most important exponents of the Italian literary movement called Neoavanguardia, along with Balestrini, Sanguineti, and Manganelli.
He was the first writer to win the Prix Médicis étranger in 1970. He also won the Brancati Prize in 1979, the Grinzane Cavour Prize in 1989 (with Stefano Jacomuzzi and Raffaele La Capria), the Viareggio Prize and the Feronia Prize in 1992.
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Stories and novels
- La scoperta dell'alfabeto (1963)
- Il serpente (1966)
- Salto mortale (1968, winner of Prix Médicis)
- Il protagonista (1973)
- Mozziconi (1975)
- Storiette (1977)
- Il pataffio (1978)
- Le galline pensierose (1980)
- Diario di un sognatore (1981)
- Storiette tascabili (1984)
- Il pianeta azzurro (1986)
- Testa d'argento (1988)
- Il fuoco greco (1990, set in the Byzantine Empire)
- Le pietre volanti (1992)
- Le maschere (1994)
- Itaca per sempre (1997)
- Pinocchio con gli stivali
- Città e dintorni (essays, 2001)
- Il circolo di Granada (2002)
English translations
Two of Malerba's books have been translated into English (as of July 2007). Both were translated by William Weaver and are currently out of print.
- Il serpente as The Serpent
- Salto mortale as What Is This Buzzing? Do You Hear It Too?
Scenarios
- The Overcoat (1952)
- Catch As Catch Can (1967)
- The Girl and the General (1967)
- Oh, Grandmother's Dead (1969)
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References
- ^ Luigi Malerba visto da Eco. La geniale arte della menzogna La Repubblica, October 8, 2009. (in Italian)
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