阅读埃乌杰尼奥·蒙塔莱 Eugenio Montale在诗海的作品!!! | |||
埃乌杰尼奥·蒙塔莱1917年参军，在第一次世界大战中是一名军官。1919年退役后，攻读过哲学。1925年出版第一本诗集《乌贼骨》。由于诗集中汇集了诗人早年居住地利奇瑞恩海岸的景象和山水，展示了与众迥异的热内亚风格，他大获成功，一举成名。这部处女作体现了隐逸派诗歌的主要特点，在表现大自然美的同时，着意抒写了“生活的邪恶”和人生“不可捉摸的痛苦”。这部诗集为他一生的创作奠定了基调。1929年迁居佛罗伦萨，完成诗集《守岸人的石屋》，获安·费多尔文学奖。1938年因不愿参加法西斯党，被解除维苏克斯图书馆馆长职务。4O年代流亡瑞士，参加反法西斯斗争。
第二次世界大战后，当过记者、音乐评论家，长期任米兰《晚邮报》的文学编辑。他拒绝参加任何党派，坚持一个原则：忠实于自己，超然于一切“主义”之外。此间连续出版三本诗集，在意大利文坛上被誉为“隐逸派”诗人的代表。
他的诗具有“纯诗”特质，如丰富的音乐性、自我象征等等，他探索这个破碎的世界，对生命、死亡、命运予以关注并加以深刻地表现而非解答什么。
他的作品还有：《命运》（1939）、《费尼兹铁瑞》（1943）、《风暴及其他》（1956）、《莎杜拉》（1971）、《1972年的日记》（1973）、《我们的时代》（评论集）等。
1967年，意大利总统授予他“终身参议员”称号。1975年， “由于他独树一帜的诗歌创作，以巨大的艺术敏感性和排除谬误与幻想的生活洞察力，阐明了人的价值”，获得诺贝尔文学奖。 1981年秋，蒙塔莱病逝于米兰。
Early years
Montale was born in Genoa. His family were chemical products traders (his father furnished Italo Svevo's firm). The poet's niece, Bianca Montale, in her Cronaca famigliare ("Family Chronicle") of 1986 portrays the family's common characteristics as follows:
“ Anxiety, nervous fragility, shyness, concision in speaking, a tendency to see as worst as possible each event, a certain sense of humour. ”
Montale was the youngest of six sons. He recalled: "We were a large family. My brothers went to the scagno ["office" in Genoese]. My only sister had a university education, but I had not such a possibility. In many families the unspoken arrangement existed that the youngest was released from the task to keep up the family's name". In 1915 Montale worked as an accountant, but was left free to follow his literary passion, frequenting the city's libraries and attending his sister Marianna's private philosophy lessons. He also studied opera singing with the baritone Ernesto Sivori, but this had only superficial effect in his future inspiration.
Montale was therefore a self-taught man, free of any conditioning from higher authorities and limited only by his very will and his person itself. His imagination was formed by several writers, including Dante Alighieri, and by studies of foreign languages, together with the landscapes of the Levante ("Eastern") Liguria, where he spent holidays with his family.
During World War I, as a member of the Military Academy of Parma, Montale asked to be sent to the front. After a brief war experience as an infantry officer in Vallarsa and Val Pusteria, in 1920 he came back home.
The years of Montale's youth can described as "rugged and essential" - the words he used for his land. In his vision of the world, the private feelings and a deep observation of the few things surrounding him were prevalent. This "little world" of Mediterranean nature and the women of the family is however supported by an unstoppable series of reading, the most gratifying for Montale, being motivated only by his pleasure and desire of knowledge.
Poetic works
Montale wrote a relatively small number of works. Four anthologies of short lyrics, a quaderno of poetry translation, plus several books of prose translations, two books of literary criticism and one of fantasy prose. Alongside his imaginative work he was a constant contributor to Italy's most important newspaper, the Corriere della Sera.
The resulting absurdity of World War I (nothing was accomplished; and as General Foch said, the Treaty of Versailles, it was not the end, but only a temporary cease-fire) took its toll in various parts of the world of the arts and it manifested itself in various ways; eg, Dadaism, de Stijl. In Italy, among the poets, it manifested itself in the form of the Hermetical Society; refer to Hermeticism which was probably the inspiration for the society's name. The output of the poetry group was to create poems of total illogic; thus mirroring the absurdity of the "War to End all Wars". The rise of fascist regime influenced deeply, though at an unconscious level, his first poetry collection Ossi di seppia ("Cuttlefish Bones"), which appeared in 1925.
The strong presence of Mediterranean landscape of Montale's native Liguria was a strong presence in his first poems: the geographical limits of Montale's inspiration were therefore the outer face of a sort of "personal reclusion" in face of the depressing events around him. The social emargination of his social class, liberal and acculturated, sharpened his sensibility towards nature's phenomena: the personal solitude generated a talk with the little and insignificant things of Ligurian nature, or with the far and evocative of its horizon, the sea. According to Montale nature is "rough, scanty, dazzling". The sea is "fermenting", provided of that hypnotic call which only the Mediterranean in certain hours can exert. In a life which appeared one of defeat since the very beginning, nature seemed to give Montale a deeper dignity, the same that the reader experiences reading his poems.
The Anticonformism of the new poetry
Montale moved to Florence in 1927 to work as editor for the publisher Bemporad. Florence was the cradle of the Italian poetry of that age, with works like the Canti orfici by Dino Campana (1914) and the first lyrics by Ungaretti for the review Lacerba. Other poets like Umberto Saba and Vincenzo Cardarelli had been highly praised by the Florentine publishers. In 1929 Montale was asked as chairman of the Gabinetto Vissieux Library, from which he was expelled in 1938 by Fascism. In the meantime he collaborated to the magazine Solaria, and frequented the literary cafe Giubbe Rosse ("Red Jackets"), where he got acquainted with Elio Vittorini and Carlo Emilio Gadda. He also wrote for almost all the literary magazines of that age of renovated research for poetry.
Though hindered by economic problems and by the conformism imposed by the authorities, Montale published in Florence his finest anthology, Occasioni ("Occasions", (1939). From 1933 to 1938 he was acquainted with Irma Brandeis, a Jewish-American scholar of Dante who occasionally visited Italy for short visits before returning to the United States. After falling in love with Brandeis, Montale's recollection of her ceased to be literary and she became a mediatrix figure like Dante's Beatrice. Le occasioni contains numerous allusions to Brandeis, here called Clizia. Franco Fortini judged Montale's Ossi di Seppia and Occasioni the highest points of the whole 20th century's Italian poetry.
A very important role in the poetry of Eugenio Montale was played by T. S. Eliot. In fact, the new ideas (poems) of Eliot were showed after just printed to Eugenio Montale from an important Italian professor who was teaching to Liverpool, Mario Praz. The objective correlative used by Montale in his poetry, was certainly influenced by T. S. Eliot.
Disharmony with the world
From 1948 until his death Montale lived in Milan. As a contributor to the Corriere della Sera he was music editor and reported from abroad, including Palestine where he went as a reporter to follow Pope Paul VI's voyage there. His works as a journalist are collected in Fuori di casa ("Out of Home", 1969).
La bufera e altro ("The Storm and Other Things") was published in 1956 and marks the end of Montale's most acclaimed poetry. Here his figure Clizia is joined by La Volpe ("the Fox"), based on the young poetess Maria Luisa Spaziani with whom Montale had an affair during the 1950s.
His later works are Xenia (1966), Satura (1971) and Diario del '71 e del '72 (1973). Montale's later poetry is wry and ironic, musing on the critical reaction to his earlier works and on the constantly changing world around him. Satura contains a poignant elegy to his wife Drusilla Tanzi. Montale's fame at that point had extended to the whole world. He had received honorary degrees by the Universities of Milan (1961), Cambridge (1967), Rome (1974), and had been named Senator-for-Life in the Italian Senate. In 1975 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature.
He died in Milan in 1981.
In 1996 a work appeared called Posthumous Diary (Diario postumo) that purported to be a literary time-bomb constructed by Montale before his death with the help of the young poet Annalisa Cima. Critical reaction at first varied, with some believing that Cima had forged the collection outright, though now the work is generally considered authentic.
Works
Ossi di seppia (1925)
La casa dei doganieri e altre poesie (1932)
Le occasioni (1939)
Finisterre (1943)
La fiera letteraria (Poetry criticism, 1948)
La bufera e altro (1956)
La farfalla di Dinard (Journalism, 1956)
Satura (1962)
Accordi e pastelli (1962)
Il colpevole (1966)
Xenia (1966)
Fuori di casa (1969)
Diario del '71 e del '72 (1973)
Posthumous Diary (1996)
The Storm & Other Poems, trans. Charles Wright (Oberlin College Press, 1978), ISBN 0-932440-01-0
Selected Poems, trans. Jonathan Galassi, Charles Wright, & David Young (Oberlin College Press, 2004), ISBN 0-932440-98-3