La poésie précoce d'Attilio Bertolucci se caractérisait par un langage humble et des décors pastoraux, ce qui lui valutut les éloges précoces de personnalités comme Eugenio Montale. Au fil du temps, son œuvre a évolué, explorant des paysages émotionnels plus complexes et marqués par un sentiment d'incertitude. Cette progression stylistique a abouti à des œuvres offrant une exploration plus profonde et complexe de la condition humaine. Son écriture est célébrée pour son authenticité profonde et la connexion intime qu'elle tisse avec le lecteur.
Focusing on communal life and health during deceptive calm, Bertolucci's poems explore parallel illnesses: personal anxiety and societal afflictions in a consumer-driven world. His reflections reveal a persistent isolation, softened only by family and friendship. Avoiding populism and antagonism, he critiques the effects of Fascism while rejecting the florid rhetoric of the past. Bertolucci's work examines what remains possible when idealized beliefs are overshadowed by the present, contributing significantly to twentieth-century Italian poetry.
Exploring the author's nervous anxiety amidst the rise of consumer society in mid-20th century Italy, this work reveals how increasing social interactions highlight a deep-seated sense of isolation. Family and friendship provide only fleeting relief from this pervasive disconnection. Translated into English for the first time, it offers a profound reflection on the emotional struggles of the era, capturing the complexities of human relationships against a backdrop of societal change.
Attilio Bertolucci was one of Italy's greatest modern poets. This book is the first English edition of his poetry. His translator Charles Tomlinson was known internationally as one of the most distinguished modern English his poems were described by Hugh Kenner as 'among the best in the English language in this century'. Born in 1911, Attilio Bertolucci published his first book of poems at the age of 18. His second, published in 1934, was recognised and favourably reviewed by Eugenio Montale. There followed a period of silence, broken in 1951 by The Indian Wigwam, which won the Viareggio Prize. He published two other books in the early 50s, but no more poetry until Winter Journey in 1971, his most boldly experimental as well as his most mature book. He also published two bestselling volumes of a novel in verse, La camera da letto, a kind of family history about his parents and childhood, and his love for Ninetta, the mother of Giuseppe and Bernardo Bertolucci, his two film-director sons. A frequent cause of pleasure and also disquiet in Bertolucci's poetry is his sense of time, the calm fire of the days. The critic Paolo Lagazzi speaks of Bertolucci, although slowly bleeding to death because wounded by time, as also drawing from time 'all the gifts, colours, sweetnesses still possible - while darkness and winter advance without truce'. Italian-English bilingual edition.
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