标题: 1959 萨尔瓦托尔-卡西莫多 意大利 [打印本页] 作者: shiyi18 时间: 2022-4-2 02:03 标题: 1959 萨尔瓦托尔-卡西莫多 意大利 Salvatore Quasimodo
Facts
Salvatore Quasimodo
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Salvatore Quasimodo
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1959
Born: 20 August 1901, Modica, Italy
Died: 14 June 1968, Naples, Italy
Residence at the time of the award: Italy
Prize motivation: "for his lyrical poetry, which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times."
Language: Italian
Prize share: 1/1
Life
When he was young, Salvatore Quasimodo wanted to be an engineer, and he began studies in Rome. However, lack of finances forced him to interrupt his education. One of his jobs involved making technical drawings in the Italian government’s civil engineering company, which took him to different parts of Italy. His first collection of poems, Acque e terre (Waters and Lands), appeared in 1930, and beginning in 1938, he devoted himself entirely to writing. He was an outspoken anti-fascist during World War II, and in 1945 he became a member of the Italian Communist Party.
Work
In 1917 Salvatore Quasimodo founded the publication Nuovo giornale letterario (New Literary Journal), where his first poems were published. His work is usually divided into the Hermetic and Post-Hermetic schools of poetry, separated by World War II which contributed to a change in his literary expression. Hermetic poetry opposed the use of language as verbal manipulation and regarded language as something subjective, with no objective meaning, where the sound of the words is as important as their meaning. Quasimodo’s later works show a change from individualism toward a more social-minded poetry.
生平
萨尔瓦托-卡西莫多年轻时想成为一名工程师，他在罗马开始学习。然而，由于缺乏经济来源，他不得不中断学业。他的工作之一是在意大利政府的土木工程公司绘制技术图纸，这使他去了意大利的不同地方。他的第一本诗集《水和土地》（Acque e terre）于1930年出版，从1938年开始，他完全投身于写作。在第二次世界大战期间，他是一个直言不讳的反法西斯主义者，1945年他成为意大利共产党的成员。
