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Ennio Flaiano

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Ennio Flaiano


Born
in Pescara, Italy
March 05, 1910

Died
November 20, 1972


Flaiano wrote for Cineillustrato, Oggi, Il Mondo, Il Corriere della Sera and other prominent Italian newspapers and magazines.
In 1947, he won the Strega Prize for his novel, Tempo di uccidere (The Short Cut). Set in Ethiopia during the Italian invasion (1935–36), the novel tells the story of an Italian officer who accidentally kills an Ethiopian woman and is then ravaged by the awareness of his act. The barren landscape around the protagonist hints at an interior emptiness and meaninglessness. This is one of the few Italian literary works (which has been constantly in print for sixty years) dealing with the misdeeds of Italian colonialism in Eastern Africa.
In 1971 he suffered a first heart-attack. "All will have to change", he wrote in his
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Tempo di uccidere

3.85 avg rating — 1,354 ratings — published 1947 — 9 editions
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Diario notturno

3.99 avg rating — 352 ratings — published 1956 — 7 editions
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Diario degli errori

3.94 avg rating — 333 ratings — published 1976 — 7 editions
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La solitudine del satiro

4.33 avg rating — 106 ratings — published 1989 — 5 editions
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Autobiografia del blu di Pr...

3.79 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 1974 — 6 editions
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Una e una notte

3.40 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 1959 — 6 editions
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Le ombre bianche

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3.93 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 1972 — 6 editions
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Frasario essenziale per pas...

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Melampus: La metamorfosi am...

3.77 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1974 — 7 editions
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Il gioco e il massacro

3.74 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1970 — 7 editions
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“In Italia la linea più breve fra due punti è l’arabesco.”
Ennio Flaiano

“Il mio gatto fa quello che io vorrei fare, con meno letteratura.”
Ennio Flaiano, Frasario essenziale per passare inosservati in società

“Afflitto da un complesso di parità. Non si sente inferiore a nessuno.”
Ennio Flaiano, Diario degli errori

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