Pietro Citati
Pietro Citati (20 February 1930 – 28 July 2022) was an Italian writer and literary critic.[1] [2]
He was born in Florence.[1] He wrote critical biographies of Goethe, Alexander the Great, Kafka and Marcel Proust as well as a short memoir on his thirty-year friendship with Italo Calvino.
In Kafka, Pietro Citati had the great writer declare: "'I am like you, I am a man like you, I suffer and rejoice as you do, like a meticulous and buoyant angel, a being who lives far away in a world that did not belong even to him."
From 1973 to 1988, he contributed to the cultural section of Corriere della Sera and was the literary critic for la Repubblica between 1988 and 2011, before returning to write for Corriere della Sera.[1]
He died at his villa in Roccamare, in the municipality of Castiglione della Pescaia, on 28 July 2022 at the age of 92.[3] [4] [5]
Bibliography
[edit ]- Goethe Dial Press (1974)
- Alexander the Great 1974
- Tolstoy Schocken (1986)
- Kafka, Milano, Rizzoli, 1987
- La colomba pugnalata 1995
- La mente colorata 2002
- La morte della farfalla 2006
Filmography
[edit ]- Dans la peau d'Italo Calvino (2012), documentary by Damian Pettigrew with Pietro Citati and Neri Marcorè in the role of Italo Calvino
References
[edit ]- ^ a b c Carioti, Antonio (28 July 2022). "Morto Pietro Citati, scavò nelle vite dei grandi autori". corriere.it (in Italian). Archived from the original on 28 July 2022.
- ^ Alfieri, Maria Chiara (27 March 2011). ""Leopardi" di Pietro Citati". NonSoloCinema (in Italian). Retrieved 19 June 2011.
- ^ "Pietro Citati è morto a Roccamare, nella sua amata Maremma". la Repubblica (in Italian). 28 July 2022. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
- ^ "E' morto Pietro Citati - Ultima Ora". Agenzia ANSA (in Italian). 28 July 2022. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
- ^ "Cerimonia d'addio per Pietro Citati, riposa in cimitero Grosseto - Arte". Agenzia ANSA (in Italian). 3 August 2022. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
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