Massimo Bontempelli (May 12, 1878 - July 21, 1960) - Italian writer, journalist, essayist and composer. He was one of the founders of Italian magical realism , during his life he created several collections of stories and poems, a number of novels and plays, as well as several musical works.
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Born in the city of Como in the family of a railway engineer, in childhood he often moved from place to place. In 1902 he graduated from the University of Turin, defending a dissertation on the origin of the Falek verse, and began working as a teacher in high school. He worked in this position for seven years, while writing articles for newspapers, and eventually abandoned teaching in favor of journalism. In 1904, he published his first collection of short stories and two plays written in the spirit of classicism, from which he subsequently renounced. In 1910 he moved to Florence. During the First World War he was a war correspondent, since 1917 he also served in artillery. After the war, he settled in Milan and became interested in literature, especially in the areas of futurism and magical realism. In 1919 he published another collection of his poems written during the war years, in which the influence of futurism was already felt. In 1921-1922 he worked as a journalist in Paris, then moved to Rome. In 1926 he became one of the founders of the literary magazine "900", with which, however, broke up after a year.
From the late 1920s and throughout the 1930s, he actively supported the fascist regime, held the post of secretary of the Union of Fascist Writers in 1928, and often traveled abroad with propaganda lectures on Italian culture; in 1935 he was one of the editors of the school textbook on literature. In 1938, however, he refused to take a professorship at the university, which was previously held by a dismissed Jewish professor, and was expelled from the Nazi party, which also forced him to leave Rome and move to Venice. After World War II, Bontempelli returned to Milan, founded the National Union of Playwrights, and in 1948 won the Senate election, but was not allowed to work when his connections with the Nazis in the past became clear. In 1953, for his novel, L'amante fedele became a laureate of the Strega Prize , Italy's most prestigious literary award. Died in Rome.
Bibliography
- Luigi Baldacci: Massimo Bontempelli , Edizioni Borla , Torino 1967.
- Fernando Tempesti: Massimo Bontempelli , La Nuova Italia, Firenze 1974.
- Barbara Nuciforo Tosolini, Il teatro di Parola. Massimo Bontempelli , Liviana, Padova 1976.
- Marinella Mascia Galateria, Tattica della sorpresa e romanzo comico di Massimo Bontempelli. Saggio su “La vita intensa” e “La vita operosa” , Bulzoni, Roma 1977.
- Fulvia Airoldi Namer, Massimo Bontempelli , Milano 1979.
- Antonio Saccone, Massimo Bontempelli. Il mito del '900 , Liguori, Napoli 1979.
- AA. VV., Massimo Bontempelli scrittore e intellettuale , Roma 1992.
- Elena Pontiggia, Massimo Bontempelli Realismo magico e altri scritti sull'arte , Milano 2006.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ 1 2 Encyclopædia Britannica
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ Internet Speculative Fiction Database - 1995.
- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 118659316 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.