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Vitaliano BrancatiLetter from Vitaliano Brancati to Countess Pecci Blunt - 19511951
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S. addressed to her "Dear Friend", the Countess Pecci Blunt. Rome, November 28, 1951. 21.29 cm. Includes letter envelope 16.11.5 cm. Perfect state.
Leonardo Sciascia describes him well as "the Italian writer who best represented the two Italian comedies, fascism and eroticism in relation to each other and as a mirror of a country in which respect for private life and the ideas of each and every all, the sense of individual freedom, are absolutely unknown. Fascism and eroticism, however, are also tragedies in our country: but Brancati recorded their comic manifestations and also involved tragic situations in the comic ».
After an "aligned" and compliant debut, thanks to contact with Alvaro, Moravia and other writers, in 1934, Brancati matured his political crisis, detaches himself from the fascist positions and disavows his early writings. The year 1941 is the watershed year: the year in which he returns to Rome and publishes Gli anni perduti, which he himself considered his first true novel, of a comic-symbolic nature inspired by Gogol and Chekhov in which bitterness is clearly felt towards the historical-political reality of his time. This is followed by the most successful novels such as the unscrupulous farce Don Giovanni in Sicilia published in 1941 (from which the film of the same name will be based), the tragicomic tale of a sexual impotence Il bell'Antonio in 1949 and the novel which remained unfinished and published posthumously ( 1959), Paolo il Caldo, the story of an erotic obsession which is intertwined with a lucid analysis of post-war political and cultural customs.
And it was in '51, when he delivered the script for Signori, in a carriage! And he is throwing down that of Monicelli's Guards and Thieves, and Other Times by Alessandro Blasetti, who writes to Pecci Blunt, saying he sent two of his writings to Mrs. Victoria Ocampo, Argentine editor and writer, for her magazine Sur and having reserved the choice for her. It must have been a great honor, in fact he thanks several times Blunt who perhaps had acted as mediator, for Brancati to be in the range of interest of Victoria Ocampo, who was a careful publisher: in fact she published important Argentine writers in her magazine such as Borges, Casares, Sábato Cortázar and introduced to the Argentines the writings of foreign authors, especially French, English and American.
This love for art and for the freedom of expression that united them, after only a couple of years caused both, Alla Ocampo and Brancati, many problems: in 1953 Ocampo was imprisoned due to her opposition to Perón, in 1952 censorship severely hits Brancati's theater with the ban on performing one of his best plays, La goverante, a drama of a female homosexuality. In the same year, the writer, taking his cue from the ban on representing his theatrical work, wrote the pamphlet "Return to censorship" in which he heartily supports the rights of the theater and freedom of expression and later participates in a congress for freedom Paris to express its adversity towards every dictatorship, both right and left.
- Creator:Vitaliano Brancati
- Creation Year:1951
- Dimensions:Height: 11.42 in (29 cm)Width: 8.27 in (21 cm)Depth: 0.04 in (1 mm)
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- Gallery Location:Roma, IT
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