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Mario Luzi

マリオ・ルージ

Mario Luzi

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1914-10-20 (Sesto Fiorentino)
Died
2005-02-28 (Florence) age 90
Nationality
Italian
Languages
Italian, French
Residence History
Castello, near Sesto Fiorentino → Florence → Rome

Career

Occupations
poet, teacher, Senator for life
Active Years
1935-2005
Affiliations
Senate of the Republic (Italy)
Memberships
Accademia dei Lincei
Influenced By
Stéphane Mallarmé, T. S. Eliot, Eugenio Montale, François Mauriac
Nominations
Nobel Prize in Literature nominee (1991, nominated by Accademia dei Lincei)

Education

University of Florence
French literature
Country: Italy
Degree in French literature with a thesis on François Mauriac

Awards

Premio Viareggio
1978
Work: Al fuoco della controversia
Result: 受賞
Aristeion Prize
1991
Work: Frasi e Incisi di un Canto Salutare
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Al fuoco della controversia

1978 Poetry

Explores eternal values against historical inauthenticity.

Eternity and timeFaith

Bibliography

  • La barca (1935)
  • Avvento notturno (1940)
  • Biografia a Ebe (1942)
  • Un brindisi (1946)
  • Quaderno gotico (1947)
  • Primizie del deserto (1952)
  • Onore del vero (1957)
  • Il giusto della vita (1960)
  • Nel magma (1963)
  • Dal fondo delle campagne (1965)
  • Su fondamenti invisibili (1971)
  • Al fuoco della controversia (1978)
  • Semiserie (1979)
  • Reportage, un poemetto seguito dal Taccuino di viaggio in Cina (1980)
  • Per il battesimo dei nostri frammenti (1985)
  • La cordigliera delle Ande e altri versi tradotti (1983)
  • Frasi e incisi di un canto salutare (1990)
  • Viaggio terrestre e celeste di Simone Martini (1994)
  • Il fiore del dolore (2003)
  • L'avventura della dualità (2003)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Symbolist formFreer longer linesNarrative discourseMusical union of sense and sound
Recurring Motifs
Man's weaknessPoetry and historyTime and eternityChristian reconciliation

Legacy

One of Italy's foremost poets, known for transition from symbolist to narrative styles. Appointed lifetime senator.