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Giorgio Manganelli

ジョルジョ・マナネッリ

Jorujo Manganelli

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1922-11-15 （Milan）
Died
1990-05-28 （Rome） age 67
Nationality
Italian
Languages
Italian
Religion
Atheism
Residence History
Milan → Rome

Career

Occupations
journalist, avant-garde writer, translator, literary critic
Active Years
1960-1990
Affiliations
Gruppo 63
Memberships
Gruppo 63
Influenced By
Edgar Allan Poe, T. S. Eliot, Henry James, Ezra Pound
Influenced
Italo Calvino

Awards

Viareggio Prize
1979
Work: Centuria: cento piccoli romanzi fiume
Category: 文学
Organization: Fondazione Premio Viareggio Repaci
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Hilarotragoedia

1964 Avant-garde fiction

An experimental work of fiction.

Language experimentationDeath and fantasy
Translations
  • French translation

Centuria: cento piccoli romanzi fiume

1979 Short story collection

One hundred short experimental novels. Winner of Viareggio Prize.

FantasyGrotesqueLanguage play
Translations
  • English (Henry Martin, 2005)

Bibliography

  • Hilarotragoedia (1964)
  • La letteratura come menzogna (1967)
  • Nuovo commento (1969)
  • Agli dèi ulteriori (1972)
  • Centuria: cento piccoli romanzi fiume (1979)

Translations by Author

  • Edgar Allan Poe's complete stories
  • T. S. Eliot et al.

Translations of Works

  • English translations
  • French translations

Style & Themes

Literary Style
baroqueexpressionistexperimentalneoavanguardia
Recurring Motifs
Language of the deadEmpire of fantasyGames of language

Legacy

One of the leaders of the avant-garde literary movement in Italy in the 1960s, Gruppo 63. Baroque and expressionist writer known for experimental fiction exploring language.

Quotes

  • a writer unlike any other, an inexhaustible and irresistible inventor in the game of language and ideas.
    Source: Italo Calvino (1997)

Trivia

  • He was an atheist.