Giulio Angioni
Giulio Angioni | |
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 Angioni in 2010 | |
| Born | 28 October 1939 Guasila,Sardinia |
| Died | 12 January 2017(aged 77) Settimo San Pietro,Sardinia |
| Occupation | Novelist, essayist |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Notable works | Le fiamme di Toledo Assandira |
Giulio Angioni(28 October 1939 – 12 January 2017) was an Italian writer andanthropologist.
Biography[edit]
Angioni was a leading Italian anthropologist, professor at theUniversity of Cagliariand fellow of St Antony's College of theUniversity of Oxford.He is the author of about twenty books of fiction and a dozen volumes of essays in anthropology.[1]
In his anthropological essays (especially inFare, dire, sentire: l’identico e il diverso nelle culture,2011), Angioni places the variety of forms of the human life in a dimension of maximum amplitude of time and space, starting from theanthropopoieticvalue of doing, saying, thinking and feeling as interrelated dimensions (although usually separate and hierarchical) of human 'nature', which here is understood as characterized by culture, i.e. the human ability of continuous learning.[2]In particular Angioni criticizes two western clichés: the superiority ofspeechas a solely human feature, and the separateness of theaesthetic dimensionfrom the rest of life.
Best known as a writer, Angioni is considered, along withSergio AtzeniandSalvatore Mannuzzu,to have been one of the initiators of a so-calledSardinian Literary Spring,the Sardinian narrative of today in the European arena (with the work of authors such asSalvatore Niffoi,Alberto Capitta,Giorgio Todde,Michela Murgiaand many others), which followed the works of individual prominent figures such asGrazia Deledda,Emilio Lussu,Giuseppe Dessì,Gavino Ledda,Salvatore Satta.
The best novels of Angioni are considered[by whom?]to beLe fiamme di Toledo(Flames of Toledo),Assandira,Doppio cielo(Double sky),L'oro di Fraus(The gold of Fraus). His poetic works (Tempusin 2008,Oremariin 2011) inSardinian languageand Italian came later in his career.
Literary works[edit]
- L'oro di Fraus(Editori Riuniti1988,Il Maestrale2000)
- Il sale sulla ferita(Marsilio1990, Il Maestrale 2010), finalist at thePremio Viareggio1990
- Una ignota compagnia(Feltrinelli1992, Il Maestrale 2007), finalist at thePremio Viareggio1992
- La casa della palma(Avagliano2002)
- Millant'anni(Il Maestrale 2002, 2009)
- Il mare intorno(Sellerio2003)
- Assandira(Sellerio 2004)
- Alba dei giorni bui(Il Maestrale 2005, 2009),Premio Dessi2005
- Le fiamme di Toledo(Sellerio 2006),Premio Corrado Alvaro2006,Premio Mondello2006
- La pelle intera(Il Maestrale 2007)
- Afa(Sellerio 2008)
- Gabbiani sul Carso(Sellerio 2010)
- Doppio cielo(Il Maestrale 2010)
- Sulla faccia della terra(2015)
Essays[edit]
- Ethnic Groups, inJournal of the Europeanists:[1]
- Tre saggi sull'antropologia dell'età coloniale,Flaccovio1973
- Sa Laurera:Il lavoro contadino in Sardegna,Edes1976 eIl Maestrale2005:[2]Archived30 December 2014 at theWayback Machine
- Il sapere della mano: saggi di antroplogia del lavoro,Sellerio 1986
- Pane e formaggio e altre cose di Sardegna,Zonza 2000
- Fare dire sentire. L'identico e il diverso nelle culture,Il Maestrale 2011
- Doing, thinking, saying,inNature knowledge,Berghahn Books2004
- On Agro-Pastoral Space in Sardinia,in Fabietti & Salzman (eds.),The Anthropology of Tribal and Peasant Pastoral Societies. Social Cohesion and Fragmentation,343–350, Como-Pavia, Ibis 1996.
Miscellaneous[edit]
- Tempus(CUEC2008, 2012 audiobook, unabridged, by Giulio Angioni)
- Il dito alzato(Sellerio 2012)
- Oremari(Il Maestrale 2013)
Bibliography[edit]
- Abate et al.,Cartas de logu: scrittori sardi allo specchio,CUEC2007.
- A. M. Amendola,L'isola che sorprende. La narrativa sarda in italiano (1974–2006),Cagliari,CUEC200, 160–179.
- Vinigi L. Grottanelli,Ethnology and/or cultural anthropology in Italy: traditions and development,in "Current Anthropology",XVIII (1977), 593–614.
- E. Hall,Greek tragedy and the politics of subjectivity in recent fiction,"Classical Receptions Journal", 1 (1), 23–42,Oxford University Press,2009.
- C. Lavinio,Narrare un'isola. Lingua e stile di scrittori sardi,Roma,Bulzoni,1991, 151–171.
- F. Manai,Cosa succede a Fraus? Sardegna e mondo nel racconto di Giulio Angioni,Cagliari,CUEC,2006.
- M. Marras,Ecrivains insulaires et auto-représentation,"Europaea", VI, 1–2 (2000), 17–77.
- A. Ottavi,Les romanciers italiens contemporains,Paris,Hachette,1992, 142–145.
- L. Schröder,Sardinienbilder. Kontinuitäten und Innovationen in der sardischen Literatur und Publizistik der Nachkriegszeit,Bern,Peter Lang,2000.
- B. Wagner,Sardinien, Insel im Dialog. Texte, Diskurse, Filme,Tübingen,Francke Verlag2008.
- F. Bachis, A. M. Pusceddu (eds),Cose da prendere sul serio. Le antropologie di Giulio Angioni,Nuoro, Il Maestrale, 2015.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^Francesco Bachis and Antonio Maria Pusceddu,Promemoria bibliografico delle opere di Giulio Angioni,in F. Bachis, A.M. Pusceddu (eds),Cose da prendere sul serio. Le antropologie di Giulio Angioni,Il Maestrale, Nuoro: 365-383.ISBN978-88-6429-160-4.
- ^Francesco Bachis, Antonio Maria Pusceddu (2015).Cose da prendere sul serio. Le antropologie di Giulio Angioni.Nuoro: Il Maestrale.ISBN978-88-6429-160-4.
External links[edit]
- OPAC SBNArchived3 March 2016 at theWayback Machine
- Giulio Angioni
- Sardegna Digital Library
- Wuz
- Club DanteArchived18 May 2012 at theWayback Machine
| International | |
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- 1939 births
- 2017 deaths
- People from the Metropolitan City of Cagliari
- 20th-century Italian novelists
- 20th-century Italian male writers
- 21st-century Italian novelists
- Italian anthropologists
- Viareggio Prize winners
- Fellows of St Antony's College, Oxford
- Sardinian literature
- Italian male novelists
- Academic staff of the University of Cagliari
- 21st-century Italian male writers