Dreams and Other Infidelities [Paperback]

Antonio Porta (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 187937837X | ISBN-13: 978-1879378377 | Publication Date: January 1, 1999 | Edition: 1st

Fiction. Newly available from SPD. One of the most original and provocative writers of postwar Italy, Porta created work marked by an open-ended search for meaning and authenticity through dreams and imagination. His stories journey inside the psyche, gliding between dream and waking, infant and adult, desire and aversion, hurt and aggression, reality and super-reality. Translated from the Italian by Anthony Molino.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Porta's poetry is political and intensely personal... unmediated by literary standards and false political ideology. -- --Kenneth Scambray, L'Italo-Americano, February 22, 2001

About the Author

Antonio Porta (1935-1989) lived in Milan and was widely recognized as one of the most important Italian writers of his generation. His career was incredibly multifaceted. He was a poet and as such one of the founders in 1961 of "I Novissimi," a group of avant-garde talents whose new poetics sought to counter the dominant influence in Italy of the hermetic school. He was also a playwright, novelist, essayist and writer for children, and he worked as editor-in-chief of the Bompiani publishing house (1972-1977) and, years later, of the highly regarded literary magazine "Alfabeta." He was active in journalism and wrote pieces for the presitigious daily "Il Corriere della Sera" and for the RAI, Italy's national broadcasting system. There were few areas of creative writing that did not engage him.

Product Details

• Paperback: 100 pages
• Publisher: Xenos Books; 1st edition (January 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 187937837X
• ISBN-13: 978-1879378377
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,478,530 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)