Salvatore Quasimodo (1901-1968) was awarded the Nobel Prize for
Literature in 1959. The citation declares, 'his lyrical poetry with
classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our
time'. Jack Bevan's authoritative translation of Quasimodo life
work fills a great gap in our knowledge of twentieth-century
European poetry. 'The poetry is textured like shot silk, yet the
elegance and syntactical lucidity with which Jack Bevan has worked
to bring these poems to English readers enables them to stand as
poems in their own right,' wrote Peter Scupham of Bevan's
translation of Quasimodo's last poems, Debit and Credit.
Quasimodo's strong and passionate writing continues to testify to
the human - and inhuman - realities which have created our modern
world. The Italian critic Giuliano Dego wrote, 'To bear witness to
man's history in all the urgency of a particular time and place,
and to teach the lesson of courage, this has been Quasimodo's
poetic task.'
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