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New York. 1980. New Directions. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 0811207730. Translated from the Italian & with an introduction by G. Singh. 170 pages. hardcover. Jacket photograph courtesy of Arnoldo Mondadori Editore. Design by Denise Breslin. keywords: Literature Translated Poetry Italy. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Eugenio Montale's It Depends: A Poet's Notebook (Quaderno di quattro anni, 1977) appeared in Italy during the Nobel laureate's eighty-second year. The sardonic force of his shrewd observations of the contemporary scene remains unblunted even as the poet has become more involved with the everyday, more private, more self-revealing. Since the publication of Ossi di seppia (Cuttlefish Bones, 1925) over fifty years ago, the importance to our identities of links with the past has been a recurrent theme in Montale's work; here it gains even greater prominence as the poet attempts to find catchholds and constancies in an unstable world, finally to accede to ‘precariousness the muse of our time. ' Professor G. Singh, head of the department of Italian language and literature at The Queen's University of Belfast, comments in his introduction to this bilingual edition: ‘It is the essence of Montale's modernity that in spite of its dependence on pun and parody, satire and sarcasm, it is firmly rooted in the fundamental sobriety and integrity of his character. He has not only tried, but tried supremely well to acquire 'a modern soul, ' and what he has paid for so dearly is our gain as well as his, a lesson for us both morally and poetically. ' As in his widely praised edition of Montale's NEW POEMS (published by New Directions in 1976), Professor Singh has translated the poems with the collaboration of the poet and provided a critical introduction and notes. The Italian originals are printed en face. inventory #9359.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition. Near fine in near fine dustwrapper. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
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New. 1st Edition, 1st printing. A FINE Hardcover with a FINE dustjacket. AS NEW. All dustjackets wrapped in Archival protection, and delivery confirmation with all our orders!
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Very good in very good dust jacket. A clean, tight copy in a very good dust jacket. Light wear to the edges. Clothbound in blue. ALL ITEMS ARE SENT BY ROYAL MAIL.
