Achille Campanile Explained

Achille Campanile
Birth Date:1899 9, df=y
Birth Place:Rome, Kingdom of Italy
Death Place:Lariano, Italy
Parents:Gaetano Campanile Mancini and Clotilde Fiore
Alma Mater:Sapienza University of Rome
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    Children:1
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    Language:Italian
    Movement:Futurism
    Novecento Italiano
    Notableworks:Se la luna mi porta fortuna
    Agosto, moglie mia non ti conosco
    In campagna è un'altra cosa (c'è più gusto)

    Achille Campanile (pronounced as /it/; 28 September 1899 – 4 January 1977) was an Italian writer, playwright, journalist and television critic known for his surreal humour and word play.

    Biography

    Achille Campanile was born in Rome on 28 September 1899. His father was one of the editors of the newspaper La Tribuna. Always a prolific contributor to newspapers and periodicals, Campanile wrote for the newspapers La Tribuna, L'Idea Nazionale and the satirical magazine Il Travaso delle idee.[1]

    He became famous for his brief humorous dramatic pieces. In 1925 he published his first theatre work entitled L’inventore del cavallo which was a single-act play. His Futurist plays, such as Centocinquanta la gallina canta (1925), characterized by a taste for word play and surrealist nonsense, won critical acclaim.

    He had more popular success with novels such as Ma che cos'è questo amore? (1927). Both his novels and plays show a passion for nonsense and linguistic ambiguity, although his surreal humour often disguises a strong critique of bourgeois mores.

    His Tragedie in due battute (Tragedies in Two Cues) have been rediscovered by the avant-garde of the sixties and the early seventies and are considered anticipations of Theatre of the Absurd.[2] Campanile was active in the post-war period as a television critic.

    Works

    Works available in English

    Notes and References

    1. Alessandra Aquilanti. Humor in Fascist Italy. . 9798662565203. Stanford University. PhD. 2015. 8.
    2. Book: Cornwell, Neil. The Absurd in Literature. Manchester University Press. 2006. 289. 071907410X.