Edited Book

Ruggero Jacobbi

Prose e racconti - Inediti e rari
  • Edited by:
  • Silvia Fantacci,

"Ah, if only I were not so alive and so crowded with things, what a book I would write […] but there's so little time […]. There's lots of time to map them out, that's true, but it's not enough." This is the voice of the protagonist of Convalescenza, one of the stories in this book that – thanks to the painstaking editorial attention of Silvia Fantacci – presents the prose written by Ruggero Jacobbi starting from his precocious youth through to the Sixties. The nine sections, recording fragments of memories, vestiges of mystery and bitter solitude, meander between cinema and theatre, revoke the faces of the war, recall the figures of writers and friends, suggest new approaches to reading. The evocation of Brazil, where Jacobbi spent the most important fifteen years of his life, is not lacking: a country "so big as to drive you crazy" with its magical rites, its rhythm, its culture (the music of Villa-Lobos, Vinícius de Morais and Dorival Caymmi and the poetry of his friend Murilo Mendes). The meticulous notes and the appendix at the end of the book illustrate the history of each text and offer a reconstruction of the projects for novels and stories that were left unfinished and have now finally been transferred from the mind and desk of the writer into book form.

  • Keywords:
  • Letteratura,
  • Letteratura italiana,
  • Raccolta di scritti,
  • Cinema,
  • Teatro,
  • Ruggero Jacobbi,
  • Elsa Morante,
  • Brasile,
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Silvia Fantacci

University of Florence, Italy

Silvia Fantacci has a degree in modern and contemporary Italian literature from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Florence, and is part of a research group headed by Anna Dolfi engaged with the ordering and cataloguing of contemporary texts.
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Book Title

Ruggero Jacobbi

Book Subtitle

Prose e racconti - Inediti e rari

Editors

Silvia Fantacci

Peer Reviewed

Publication Year

2007

Copyright Information

© 2007 Author(s)

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CC BY 4.0

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CC0 1.0

Publisher Name

Firenze University Press

DOI

10.36253/978-88-8453-688-4

eISBN (pdf)

978-88-8453-688-4

eISBN (xml)

978-88-5518-839-5

Series Title

Fonti storiche e letterarie – Edizioni cartacee e digitali

Series ISSN

2704-5994

Series E-ISSN

2704-6001

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