Biography of Alberto Asor Rosa

September 23, 1933 Alberto Asor Rosa was born on 23 September 1933 in Rome. Following the Hungarian revolution in 1956 is a signatory of the famous "Manifesto dei 101" by which various intellectuals speak negatively about the Soviet intervention. Her debut work was a profile of Vasco Pratolini, released only twenty-five years. Marxist training, writes in 1965 the essay writers and people "(Samonà and Savelli), which defines and criticizes the populist vein of Italian literature at the time, represented among others by" boys life ", novel by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Between 1968 and 1971 directs the magazine ' Counterparty "(Mario Tronti-operaist is close to). While teaching at the University of Cagliari, in 1971 writes "Thomas Mann or ambiguity bourgeois"; the following year he became Professor of Italian literature at the University La Sapienza in Rome. In 1974, after realizing the book "intellectuals and the working class: Essays on the forms of a historical conflict and a possible Alliance," Alberto Asor Rosa publishes "Galilei and the new science," and Lai "Reformation" culture; the following year to Einaudi deals, in the volume "history of Italy", "culture", and wrote "The seventeenth-century lyric poets of Baroque" and "playful". Always for Einaudi, 1977 spell "Genus Italicum" and "the two companies"; with the new Italy publishes "Summaries of Italian literature" in 1979, the year in which it is involved, for the encyclopedia Einaudi, the "intellectuals". Becomes-also-Pci mp, but will leave the Parliament already in 1980. Director, in 1981, of "political laboratory" (will keep for two years), Barbour writes, "Ungaretti and Roman culture", while public policy considerations in 1985 in "the last paradox". In 1990 he was chosen editor of "rebirth", weekly Italian Communist Party which remains driving for a year. In the second half of the 1990s, writes "the left test" (Einaudi) and "another 20th century" (the new Italy). He is the author, in later years, of "20th century Italian Literature. Budget centuries "and" style Calvino: five studies ". In 2002 he was appointed honorary citizen of Artena, country who attended as a child because his maternal grandmother lived, and published the novel "the dawn of a new world", Einaudi, set in the years of World War II. The following year, having reached the age limit for retirement, leave the teaching activity. In 2004 takes the direction of "Bulletin of Italian studies", biannual journal of Linguistics, philology, literary history and criticism, while the following year gives the prints, always for Einaudi, the novel "stories of animals and other living things." Also in 2005, he was devoted to a study in the essay "Criticism and project. Cultures in Italy from the 1960s to today ". He returned to teach in 2006, always at the Sapienza University, works on "European history of Italian literature", released in 2009 (the year he collaborated with Simonetta Fiori in "the great silence. Interview intellectuals ", Laterza, it reflects on the history of intellectuals, especially the last sixty years); then writes the book "assumption and Alexander. Stories of ants ", released in 2010. In 2011 stir with an article in the newspaper Il Manifesto that calls for the intervention of "a showdown that [...] come down from above"and establishing a"State of emergency"freezing rooms, suspending all parliamentary immunity, returning"the Magistracy its possibilities and capacity for action"and establishing"of authority new electoral rules". In the same year he published "the weapons of criticism. Writings and essays of the roaring twenties (1960-1970) ", a collection of literary criticism. In 2013 publish "Stories", a collection that explores the themes of death, time and memory.
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