by Giorgio Manganelli · Editorial Anagrama · tapa dura · ISBN 9788433930880
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In 'A y B', Giorgio Manganelli presents a collection of sixteen dialogues, including twelve imaginary interviews with historical figures such as Tutankhamun, Casanova, and Nostradamus. This book is a display of Manganelli's rhetorical and sophisticated skill, exploring the mortal condition of men with elegance and a touch of irony. The author intertwines experiences and memories, evoking authors such as Leopardi, Borges, Landolfi, Eco, and Calvino, creating a work that is both paradoxical and deeply reflective.
Giorgio Manganelli was an Italian journalist, avant-garde writer, translator and literary critic. A native of Milan, he was one of the leaders of the avant-garde literary movement in Italy in the 1960s, Gruppo 63. He was a baroque and expressionist writer. Manganelli translated Edgar Allan Poe's complete stories and authors like T. S. Eliot, Henry James, Eric Ambler, O. Henry, Ezra Pound, Robert Louis Stevenson, Byron's Manfred and others into Italian. He published an experimental work of fiction, Hilarotragoedia, in 1964, at the time he was a member of the avant-garde Gruppo 63. Centuria, which won the Viareggio Prize, is probably his most approachable; it was translated into English in 2005 by Henry Martin. Agli dei ulteriori comprises a linked collection of short pieces, including an exchange of letters between Hamlet and the Princess of Cleves and concludes with a fake learned article on the language of the dead. He died in Rome in 1990. He was an atheist. Italo Calvino called him 'a writer unlike any other, an inexhaustible and irresistible inventor in the game of language and ideas'.
