- Pietro Citati
Pietro Citati (
Florence , 1930) is a famous Italian writer and literary critic.He has written critical biographies of
Goethe ,Alexander the Great , Kafka andMarcel Proust as well as a short but unforgettable memoir on his thirty-year friendship withItalo Calvino .In "Kafka", Pietro Citati has the great writer declare: "'I am like you, I am a man like you, I suffer and rejoice as you do, like a meticulous and buoyant angel, a being who lives far away in a world that did not belong even to him."
From 1973 to 1988, he contributed to the cultural section of "
Corriere della Sera " and has been the literary critic for "la Repubblica " since 1988.Bibliography
* "Goethe" Dial Press (1974)
* "Alexander the Great" 1974
* "Tolstoy" Schocken (1986)
* "Kafka", Milano, Rizzoli, 1987
* "La colomba pugnalata" 1995
* "La mente colorata" 2002
* "La morte della farfalla" 2006
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