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Vasco Pratolini

ヴァスコ・プラトリーニ

Vasco Pratolini

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1913-10-19 （Florence）
Died
1991-01-12 （Rome） age 77
Nationality
Italy
Languages
Italian
Religion
Unknown
Residence History
Florence, Italy → Rome, Italy

Career

Occupations
novelist, screenwriter
Active Years
1938-1991
Affiliations
Campo di Marte
Influenced By
Elio Vittorini, Alfonso Gatto
Nominations
Nobel Prize in Literature (nominated three times)

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Cronaca familiare

1947 novel

Autobiographical novel about family chronicle.

familyFlorentine life
Adaptations
  • [film] Cronaca familiare / Valerio Zurlini (1962)
Translations
  • English: Family Chronicle

Bibliography

  • Il tappeto verde
  • Via de' magazzini
  • Le amiche
  • Il quartiere (The Naked Streets / A Tale of Santa Croce)
  • Cronaca familiare (Family Chronicle / Two Brothers)
  • Cronache di poveri amanti (A Tale of Two Poor Lovers)
  • Diario sentimentale
  • Mestiere da vagabondo
  • Un eroe del nostro tempo (A Hero of Our Time)
  • Le ragazze di San Frediano (The Girls of Sanfrediano)
  • La domenica della povera gente
  • Lungo viaggio di Natale
  • Metello
  • Lo scialo
  • La costanza della ragione (Bruno Santini)
  • Allegoria e derisione
  • La mia città ha trent'anni
  • Il mannello di Natascia

Adaptations

  • Rocco and His Brothers (screenplay collaboration)
  • Paisan (screenplay collaboration)
  • The Four Days of Naples (screenplay collaboration)
  • Le ragazze di San Frediano (filmed)

Translations of Works

  • Via del Corno (opera by Kirill Molchanov)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
realismdepiction of working-class life in Florencerooted in political principles
Recurring Motifs
working-class sentimentsordinary people's livesanti-fascism

Legacy

A prominent 20th-century Italian writer nominated three times for the Nobel Prize in Literature, known for works centered on the lives of Florence's modest working-class people.

In Popular Culture

  • Novels adapted into films; collaborated on screenplays.
  • Opera adaptation by Soviet composer Kirill Molchanov.

Trivia

  • Fought with Italian partisans against German occupation during WWII.