Arturo Loria in the literary panorama of the 900 is truly an illustrious unknown . He was born in Carpi in 1902 into a family of industrial and apart from a few visits to the United States, France and England, lived in Florence, where he died in 1957.
was part of the literary movement that gathered around the magazine "Solaria",
literary and artistic center aims to rejuvenate the landscape and conformist Strapaese Fascist Italy and open a European perspective in the culture of our country . The list of intellectuals who collaborated in various ways and at different times in the magazine range from Bacchelli to Eugenio Montale, from Sergio Leone to Solmi Ginzburg, James De Benedetti, Carlo Emilio Gadda, The Red Carnation Vittorini came out as a serial in the magazine in 1933.
In this panorama of fervor, which aims to link major European literary experience and has an important contribution, together with Nino Frank and Leo Ferrero, Arturo Loria to learn English authors (Joyce, Eliot, Virginia Woolf), U.S. (Hemingwey , Faulkner), Russians (Majakowskij, Pasternak, Esenin), the EURO / (Rilke, Kafka, Mann and Zweig). The magazine ceased publication in 1936 for the increasing difficulty that comes in from the fascist censorship.
But back to Heaven and Bellona (1928) . This is a collection of short stories who were summarily laid picaresque and are in the sense that the characters are rogues and adventurers who live in the picaresque narrative, but unlike it, in the stories of Loria, the time of the narrative is indefinite: the context you can imagine a pre -industrial, the site un'indistinta periphery of the world. The characters who populate these eight stories, can be summarized in the words of Alexander Bonsanti beautiful in the preface:
A solitary creature, condemned to solitude for an extraordinary richness of the often complicated by a flaw in the physical struggles in result of that lack of communication with other human beings try to come Head of failure and rebellion. The means used must be love, but it is pursued in vain, and you only get to leave as soon as possible once again abandoned the protagonist of a contention that, as is done in a minor key, a scale is difficult to say. For at best, the story ends on a note of melancholy, not resigned sibbene atrocious.
A reading unusual for people to meet literary curiosity, which do not end in a showcase latest products & bestseller.
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