(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 28 - The writer and literary critic Pietro Citati died at the age of 92.
Born in Florence on February 9, 1930, in his long reflection he ranged from Homer to Proust, from Leopardi to Goethe, from Manzoni to Kafka.
In 1984 he won the Strega prize with Tolstoy labiography.
Fine interpreter of the authors at the center of his critical reflection, former collaborator of Giorno and Corriere della Sera, in the last years of Repubblica, Citati also won the Viareggio prize in 1970 with his 'Goethe' and numerous awards abroad.
Among his works 'Images of Alessandro Manzoni: an essay' (1973);
'Alessandro' (1974);
'Short Life of Katherine Mansfield' (1980);
'Tolstoy' (1983);
'Kafka' (1987); 'Portraits of women' (1992);
'The stabbed dove: Proust and the Recherche' (1995); 'The light of the night.
The great myths in the history of the world '(1996);
'The hill of Brusuglio: portrait of Manzoni' (1997); 'The harmony of the world: myths of today' (1998);
'The colored mind: Ulysses and the Odyssey' (2002);
'Israel and the
Islam: the sparks of God '(2003);
'Extravagant Pages by Pietro Citati' (2005);
'Death of the Butterfly: Zelda and Francis Scott Fitzgerald' (2006); 'The disease of infinity' (2008);
'Leopardi' (2010);
'The Don Quixote' (2013);
'The Gospels' (2014).
In 2006 a Meridiano Mondadori was released, composed of his writers, 'The European literary civilization', edited by PaoloLagazzi, designed by the author himself, cutting out essays of different dimensions and choosing entire books from his very high production.
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(2013);
'The Gospels' (2014).
In 2006 a Meridiano Mondadori was released, composed of his writers, 'The European literary civilization', edited by PaoloLagazzi, designed by the author himself, cutting out essays of different dimensions and choosing entire books from his very high production.
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(2013);
'The Gospels' (2014).
In 2006 a Meridiano Mondadori was released composed of his writers, 'The European Literary Civilization', edited by PaoloLagazzi, designed by the author himself by cutting out essays of varying dimensions and choosing entire books from his excellent production.
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