/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.21360752]

recommend me underrated italian literature

[Anonymous No.21360797]

>>21360752
Dino Buzzati's The Tartar Steppe is great, but I enjoyed his short stories even more, kinda similar to Kafka's stories but perhaps a little easier to decipher

[Anonymous No.21361040]

>>21360752
pic related

[Anonymous No.21361063]

>>21361040
Internazbol gang (it's Amadeo Bordiga, in case OP doesn't know him)

[Anonymous No.21362146]

ehh do you read Italian? lots of the best stuff is hard, modernist and untranslated.

I like pic related

[Anonymous No.21362270]

>>21360752
Dialogues with leuco

[Anonymous No.21362351]

I don't know if it's underrated, but I never see anyone here talk about Sweet Days of Discipline or other books by Fleur Jaeggy.

[Anonymous No.21362366]

>>21362146
Elliot Rodger confirmed

[Anonymous No.21362381]

>>21360797
Also his graphic novels are fantastic
Highly recc Poem Strip

[Anonymous No.21362391]

>>21362381
every frame of this is stunning

[Anonymous No.21362392]

>>21360752
Giovanni Papini - Universal Judgment

[Anonymous No.21362441]

>>21362381
What's this?
t. Italian
>>21360752
>underrated italian literature
Primo Levi science fiction
To my knowledge it is both 1)fully translated in English 2)published multiple times in Italian (recently they gave like his opera omnia in three volumes with a newspaper) and YET people who are deep into sci fi do not even know he wrote multiple short stories of it. Everything is shadowed by his WWII/Holocaust books. At best, they know he wrote semiautobiographical (=not sci fi) stories based on the element table.

Calvino sci fi is also very good, a little more known than Levi

You asked for underrated and I gave you underrated

[Anonymous No.21362511]

>>21362441
Dino Buzzati's Poem Strip. A lesser known graphic novel of his from the 60's. Recently brought back into publication (in English, for the first time I believe)

[Anonymous No.21362522]

federica tommasi

[Anonymous No.21362741]

>>21362511
nice, thanks
I'll check if I find some pdf of the original Italian
How many graphic novels did he make, to your knowledge?

[Anonymous No.21362753]

>>21362741
If you can't find it it's worth grabbing the translation just to see the illustrations. Every frame of it is absolutely beautiful and something I'd love to have as full prints. To my knowledge it's the only graphic novel he did but I'm sure he has more illustration work just from the quality of the artwork.

[Anonymous No.21363003]

>>21362753
>but I'm sure he has more illustration work just from the quality of the artwork.
Interestingly
>More than a diversion, painting was a second profession for Dino Buzzati, so much so that he went so far as to declare: «I am a painter who, as a hobby, unfortunately for a rather prolonged period, also worked as a writer and journalist» [17] . Buzzati's pictorial works are strongly linked to the atmospheres and situations of his novels and short stories: the author himself defined his paintings as "painted stories", underlining with this expression the strong narrative charge of the canvases, which often feature cartoonish writings or they are divided, just like a comic book page, into various boxes, each of which represents a "moment" of the action.

That said, this is what Italian wiki lists as "Art catalogues and other graphic works"
>Le storie dipinte, a cura di Mario Oriani e Adriano Ravegnani, Milano, All'insegna dei Re Magi, 1958 (poi con testo di Adriano Ravegnani, Milano, Il Libraio di Via Sant'Andrea, 1977, stampato su carta a mano Rusticus della Cartiera Miliani di Fabriano in 1000 copie; infine a cura di Lorenzo Viganò, Milano, Mondadori, 2013).
>Poema a fumetti, Milano, Mondadori, 1969. *The one you mentioned*
>I miracoli di Val Morel, Milano, Garzanti, 1971 (1ª ed. nel catalogo Miracoli inediti di una santa, Milano, Edizioni del Naviglio, 1970; poi Per grazia ricevuta, Milano, GEI, 1983).
>Osvaldo Patani, Le gambe di Saint Germain, con acqueforti di Dino Buzzati, 1971.
>Maccari e Buzzati al Teatro alla Scala. Mostra sesta a cura di Giulio Carlo Argan. Bozzetti e figurini 1959-1973, Milano, Edizione Amici della Scala, 1990.
>Buzzati pittore, a cura di Raffaele De Grada, Milano, Giorgio Mondadori, 1992.
>Dino Buzzati. La donna, la città, l'inferno, a cura di M. Ferrari, Treviso, Canova, 1997.
>Buzzati 1969: il laboratorio di "Poema a fumetti", a cura di Maria Teresa Ferrari, Milano, Mazzotta, 2002.
>Buzzati racconta. Storie dipinte e disegnate (catalogo della mostra, Milano, 15 novembre 2006-28 gennaio 2007), a cura di Maria Teresa Ferrari, Milano, Mondadori Electa, 2006. *This one seems to be another graphic "novel", at least from the name of it*
>Buzzati alla Scala, a cura di Vittoria Crespi Morbio, Torino, Allemandi, 2006.
>Catalogo dell'opera pittorica, a cura di Nicoletta Comar, Gorizia, Edizioni della Laguna, 2006.

[Anonymous No.21363006]

>>21362381
>graphic novels
comics*

[Anonymous No.21363048]

>>21363006
Is there any meaningful difference?

[Anonymous No.21364388]

This looks promising