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About the Author
ARTURO LORIA was the author of three short story collections, Il cieco e la Bellona (1928), Fannias Ventosca (1929), and La scuola di ballo (1932); an editor of Solaria and Il Mondo; and the author of an opera. He received the prestigious Premio Frachhia from L'Italia letteraria in 1933. He was born in Carpi, Italy, in 1902 to a Jewish-Catholic family, and died in 1957.
The Blind Man and the Beauty and Other Stories WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
The personal and universal cataclysms in Claire Malroux's poetry-a maelstrom of love, torment and sweetness-are viewed as though through the calm lens of a dream. All is surging, hushed, violently human. Marilyn Hacker's gifted translation captures the tone flawlessly. — John Ashbery
His material was so rich that we might almost say that he barely
touched it. Nonetheless, he did so with a master hand, in an
unforgettable fashion.... A man such as Loria (and, some years ago, he
was not the only man of his type in Florence) is not just the product
of a city: he is also its curator and, in a certain sense, its
creator. It may be an illusion; but when one returns to a city
specifically to see a particular man once again, the man and the city
become identified with each other, taking on a single face. I'll tell
the truth: had I one day been able to lead a life, a supplementary
life, du cote de chez Swann, I could only have done so with the help
and guidance of a master: Loria.
— Eugenio Montale
Claire Malroux breaks words up the way she'd split flint, grinds them like marble into dust. In another poem she is the awkward alchemist, brewing her own love. In still another, 'the book unwrites itself, whiter than night.' Marilyn Hacker's marvelous translations keep pace with Malroux's doings and undoings, makings and unmakings: Hacker catches the flash, the violence, the tenderness, the fleshliness and the airiness of Malroux's paradoxical art. — Rosanna Warren
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