Giuseppe Antonio Borgese

Giuseppe Antonio Borghese (November 12, 1882 - December 4, 1952) was an Italian writer, journalist and literary critic.

Biography

Borgese was born in Polizzi Generosa, near Palermo (Sicily). He graduated in literature at the University of Florence in 1903.

In his early years he founded several literary reviews, including the Dannunzian "Hermes" (1904), and worked for newspapers such as "Corriere della Sera", "La Stampa" and "Il Mattino".

He taught German literature and aesthetics at the universities of Turin, Rome and Milan until 1931 when, due to his opposition of the Fascist regime, he was forced to move to the United States. Here he declared himself a political exiled. He was professor in the Universities of Chicago and California until the end of World War II, making friends with Thomas Mann and marrying his youngest daughter Elisabeth.

He returned to Milan in 1945.

Borgese died in Fiesole in 1952.

Works

Poetry

* "La canzone paziente" (1910)
* "Le Poesie" (1922)
* "Poesie 1922-1952" (1952)

Novels

* "Rubè" (1921)
* "I vivi e i morti" (1923)

Short stories

* "La città sconosciuta" (1925)
* "La tragedia di Mayerling" (1925)
* "Le belle" (1927)
* "Il sole non è tramontato" (1929)
* "Tempesta nel nulla" (1931)
* "Il pellegrino appassionato" (1933)
* "La Siracusana" (1950)
* "Le novelle" (2 volumes, 1950)

Theatre

* "L'Arciduca" (1924)
* "Lazzaro" (1925)

Literature and aesthetics

* "Gabriele D'Annunzio" (1909)
*"Mefistofele. Con un discorso sulla personalità di Goethe" (1911)
*"La vita e il libro" (3 volumes, 1910-1913)
*"Studi di letterature moderne" (1915)
*"Resurrezione" (1922)
*"Tempo di edificare" (1923)
*"Ottocento europeo" (1927)
*"Il senso della letteratura italiana" (1931)
*"Poetica dell'unità. Cinque saggi" (1934)
*"Problemi di estetica e storia della critica" (1952)

Journalism and essays

*"La nuova Germania" (1909)
*"Italia e Germania" (1915)
*"Guerra di redenzione" (1915)
*"La guerra dlle idee" (1916)
*"L'Italia e la nuova alleanza" (1937)
*"L'Alto Adige contro l'Italia" (1921)
*"Goliath, the March of Fascism" (1937)
*"Disegno preliminare di costituzione mondiale" (1949)

Voyages

*"Autunno a Costantinopoli" (1929)
*"Giro lungo per la primavera" (1930)
*"Escursioni in terre nuove" (1931)
*"Atlante americano" (1936)