Biography of Achille Campanile

Immortality in rice

28 September 1899
January 4, 1977
Open a book means plunging into the realm of the absurd but doesn't seem at all absurd. Happen then in many of his tales of no surprise to laugh for situations that don't really "do" laugh or find funny descriptions completely normal that we perceive to be ... fun. In short, we face perhaps the greatest humorist of the twentieth century, at least in Italy. The secret lies in the language of Achille Campanile: the flatter and simple as possible; the most normal, the most existing language newspaper, away from tinsel and literary ephemera. But with an evocative capacity of particular humorous absolutely powerful. To quote Umberto Eco, reportedly just to the steeple, "take the teasing language means taking it" to "the letter, yielding effects of alienation". Born in Rome on 28 September 1899 (although some biographies, significant and important, give the birth year as 1900), Achille Campanile began writing at a very young age.
Early years with journalism at the Forum and the national Idea and then decanting, fascism. But even the theatre with the first Tragedies in two lines, in which the taste for puns and surreal.
Passionate praise and fierce criticism accompanied the first performances of "love does do this and other" in 1930. Finally the novels as a means of telling superior to all others, "But what is this love" to "Danny", from "La moglie ingenua e il marito malato" up to "the hero", as well as several collections of short stories. Many before publication appeared in the columns of the most important newspapers like La Stampa, La Gazzetta del Popolo, Milan Evening. Achille Campanile won the Viareggio prize twice, in 1933 with "sing-song on the street corner" and forty years later with "conversational Manual". He was a tireless worker, sometimes worked late into the night. He wrote with a pen, developing the notes that he took on the cards of all sizes, even on tram tickets, and they packed the pockets of his clothes. He lived in Rome and Milan up to transfer, in recent years, his residence in Lariano near Velletri, in order to please his wife Celsa and his son Gaetano.
Here abandons the Monocle and fancy clothes, it does grow a long beard and flowing and takes on the appearance of an old patriarch. He continues to write as much to fill the shelves of his Office in short stories, novels and new works. His conquest of the territory of authentic literary values, which today are widely acknowledged, has been slow; also because he was a man, "out of the Scrum," don't bother to get into petty literary Chronicle. Achille Campanile died in dashiqiao on January 4, 1977, leaving us as a testament, in addition to his many works, the sign of immortality.
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