Book record
Notturno
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Translated from Italian by Stephen Sartarelli
Notturno, by Gabriele D’Annunzio and translated by Stephen Sartarelli, brings a major, troubling, flamboyant Italian figure into English through a work marked by night, perception, and inward spectacle. D’Annunzio’s literary reputation is inseparable from decadence, politics, aesthetic excess, and self-mythology, but Notturno asks to be read through a more shadowed register. The title points toward nocturne: music in darkness, thought after injury, consciousness under altered light. Sartarelli’s translation gives English readers access to a text where prose and poetry blur into night-vision. I would read Notturno with alertness to both beauty and danger. Some writers are dazzling partly because they are not safe. The book’s value lies in that uneasy intensity, where darkness becomes style and testimony.
- Published
- 2012
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Italy
- ISBN
- 9780300155426