Achille Campanile
{{Short description|Italian writer (1899–1977)}}
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| name = Achille Campanile
| image = File:Achille Campanile.jpg
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| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1899|9|28}}
| birth_place = Rome, Kingdom of Italy
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1977|1|4|1899|9|28}}
| death_place = Lariano, Italy
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| occupation = {{hlist|Novelist|playwright|Intellectual|Literary critic}}
| parents = Gaetano Campanile Mancini and Clotilde Fiore
| alma_mater = Sapienza University of Rome
| spouse = {{plainlist|
- {{marriage|Maria Rosa Lisa|1940|1943|end=divorced}}
- {{marriage|Giuseppina Bellavita|1953}}
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| children = 1
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| language = Italian
| genre = {{hlist|Novel|drama}}
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| 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)
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Achille Campanile ({{IPA|it|aˈkille kam.paˈni.le}}; 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.{{sfn|Luxardo Franchi|1988}} 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.{{cite thesis|author=Alessandra Aquilanti|title=Humor in Fascist Italy|id={{ProQuest|2501173396}}|isbn=9798662565203|location=Stanford University|degree=PhD|year=2015|page=8
|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/2501173396}}
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.{{sfn|Luxardo Franchi|1988}}
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.{{cite book|title=The Absurd in Literature|first=Neil|last=Cornwell|publisher=Manchester University Press|year=2006|page=289|isbn=071907410X}} Campanile was active in the post-war period as a television critic.
Works
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- Ma che cos'è questo amore? (1924)
- Se la luna mi porta fortuna (1927)
- Agosto, moglie mia non ti conosco (1930)
- In campagna è un'altra cosa (1931)
- Cantilena all'angolo della strada (1933)
- Celestino e la famiglia Gentilissimi (1942)
- Il povero Piero (1959)
- Amiamoci in fretta (1962)
- L'inventore del cavallo e altre quindici commedie (1971)
- Manuale di conversazione (1973)
- Asparagi e immortalità dell'anima (1974)
- Vite degli uomini illustri (1975)
- L'eroe (1976)
- Tragedie in due battute (1978)
Works available in English
- {{cite book|title=The inventor of the horse and two other short plays|year=1995|isbn=9780920717974|publisher=Guernica|translator=Francesco Loriggio}}
References
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Sources
- {{DBI|url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/achille-campanile_(Dizionario-Biografico)|volume=34|last=Luxardo Franchi|first=Piero|title=CAMPANILE, Achille}}
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Category:Italian dramatists and playwrights
Category:Italian male journalists
Category:Italian television critics
Category:Viareggio Prize winners
Category:20th-century Italian dramatists and playwrights
Category:Italian male dramatists and playwrights
Category:20th-century Italian male writers
Category:20th-century Italian journalists
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