Achille Campanile
Italian writer
Achille Campanile
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Achille Campanile
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Born |
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1899-09-28
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28 September 1899
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Died |
4 January 1977
(1977-01-04)
(aged
77)
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Alma mater | Sapienza University of Rome |
Occupations |
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Spouses |
Maria Rosa Lisa
(
m.
1940
;
div.
1943
)
Giuseppina Bellavita
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m.
1953
)
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Children | 1 |
Parent(s) | Gaetano Campanile Mancini and Clotilde Fiore |
Writing career | |
Language | Italian |
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Literary movement |
Futurism
Novecento Italiano |
Notable works |
Se la luna mi porta fortuna
Agosto, moglie mia non ti conosco In campagna è un'altra cosa (c'è più gusto) |
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Achille Campanile ( Italian pronunciation: [aˈkille kam.paˈni.le] ; 28 September 1899 – 4 January 1977) was an Italian writer, playwright, journalist and television critic known for his surreal humour and word play .
Biography
Achile Campanile was born in Rome on 28 September 1899. [1] His father was one of the editors of the newspaper La Tribuna . [2] Always a prolific contributor to newspapers and periodicals, Campanile wrote for the newspapers La Tribuna , L'Idea Nazionale and the satirical magazine Il Travaso delle idee . [1]
He became famous for his brief humorous dramatic pieces. In 1925 he published his first theatre work entitled L’inventore del cavallo which was a single act play. [1] His Futurist plays, such as Centocinquanta la gallina canta (1925), characterized by a taste for word play and surrealist nonsense , won critical acclaim.
He had more popular success with novels such as Ma che cos'è questo amore? (1927). Both his novels and plays show a passion for nonsense and linguistic ambiguity, although his surreal humour often disguises a strong critique of bourgeois mores. [2]
His Tragedie in due battute (Tragedies in Two Cues) have been rediscovered by the avant-garde of the sixties and the early seventies and are considered anticipations of Theatre of the Absurd . [3] Campanile was active in the post-war period as a television critic.
Works
- Ma che cos'è questo amore? (1924)
- Se la luna mi porta fortuna (1927)
- Agosto, moglie mia non ti conosco (1930)
- In campagna è un'altra cosa (1931)
- Cantilena all'angolo della strada (1933)
- Celestino e la famiglia Gentilissimi (1942)
- Il povero Piero (1959)
- Amiamoci in fretta (1962)
- L'inventore del cavallo e altre quindici commedie (1971)
- Manuale di conversazione (1973)
- Asparagi e immortalità dell'anima (1974)
- Vite degli uomini illustri (1975)
- L'eroe (1976)
- Tragedie in due battute (1978)
Works available in English
- The inventor of the horse and two other short plays . Translated by Francesco Loriggio. Guernica . 1995. ISBN 9780920717974 .
References
- 1 2 3 Alessandra Aquilanti (2015). Humor in Fascist Italy (PhD thesis). Stanford University. p. 8. ISBN 9798662565203 . ProQuest 2501173396 .
- 1 2 Luxardo Franchi 1988 .
- ↑ Cornwell, Neil (2006). The Absurd in Literature . Manchester University Press . p. 289. ISBN 071907410X .
Sources
- Luxardo Franchi, Piero (1988). "CAMPANILE, Achille" . Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani , Volume 34: Primo supplemento A–C (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana . ISBN 978-8-81200032-6 .
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