Notturno / Gabriele D'Annunzio ; translated and annotated by Stephen Sartarelli ; preface by Virginia Jewiss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

D'Annunzio, Gabriele, 1863-1938.

Contributor:

Sartarelli, Stephen, 1954-

Series:

Margellos world republic of letters

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, Italian--20th century.

Authors, Italian.

Life change events--Poetry.

Life change events.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Composed during a period of extended bed rest, Gabriele D'Annunzio's Notturno is a moving prose poem in which imagination, experience, and remembrance intertwine. The somber atmosphere of the poem reflects the circumstances of its creation. With his vision threatened and his eyes completely bandaged, D'Annunzio suffered months of near-total blindness and pain-wracked infirmity in 1921, and yet he managed to write on small strips of paper, each wide enough for a single line. When the poet eventually regained his sight, he put together these strips to create the lyrical and innovative Notturno.In Notturno D'Annunzio forges an original prose that merges aspects of formal poetry and autobiographical narrative. He fuses the darkness and penumbra of the present with the immediate past, haunted by war memories, death, and mourning, and also with the more distant past, revolving mainly around his mother and childhood. In this remarkable translation of the work, Stephen Sartarelli preserves the antiquated style of D'Annunzio's poetic prose and the tension of his rich and difficult harmonies, bringing to contemporary readers the full texture and complexity of a creation forged out of darkness.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Note on the Translation

First Offering

Second Offering

Third Offering

Post Scriptum

Appendix

Notes

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-280-57161-6

9786613601216

0-300-16016-X

OCLC:

785925710