Books
EUGENIO MONTALE: Collected Poems: 1920-1954; Translated from the Italian and annotated by Jonathan Galassi; (Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 626 pp., $40) : SATURA: Poems: 1962-1970; By Eugenio Montale; Translated from the Italian with notes by William Arrowsmith; (W.W. Norton: 220 pp., $29.95)
Feb. 7, 1999
Archives
The swallow brings back blades of grass, not wanting life to go.
That life breaking off, secretly transfusing mine, I have bound to you: of you, your stifled presence, that conflicted life seems almost unaware.
Nov. 7, 1993
Outside the elevator at the Manhattan offices of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, a glass case is filled with books showcasing the recent publishing season--poetry by Seamus Heaney; a collection of essays by Derek Walcott; Tom Wolfe’s new novel; a young adult novel, “Flapjack”; and a bilingual edition of the poems of Eugenio Montale.
One can’t converse with shades on the phone.
July 4, 1999
Now that the ticket to eternity has your name on it, we are here to pay the awkward tribute post-modernity allows to those who think they think your way but hear you only faintly, filtered through a gauze of echoes, sounding in a voice that could be counterfeit; and yet the noise seems to expand our notion of the true.
Dec. 11, 1988
World & Nation
Winners of the Nobel Prize in literature since 1960: * __ * 2005: Harold Pinter, Britain. * 2004: Elfriede Jelinek, Austria. * 2003: J.M.
March 20, 2019
Tommaso Landolfi occupies an odd place in modern Italian literature as one of its most admired and least read writers.
June 4, 1989
Editor’s Note: This year, The Times reviewed more than 700 books.
Dec. 13, 1998
Entertainment & Arts
I’m sure we all looked pretty silly at the first concert performance of Luciano Berio’s “Laborintus II,” which was given at Mills College, Oakland, in 1967.
Jan. 13, 2005