Eugenio Montale

Eugenio Montale's epoch-making first book, Cuttlefish Bones (1925), has been hailed as one of the truly important works of poetry in the twentieth century. At once an earned poetic manifesto and spiritual autobiography, its dialogue between self and others, hope and despair, is sustained with absolute musical mastery and that simplicity-in-complexity that marks only the greatest poetry. -- W.W. Norton & Company.

Cuttlefish Bones

Ossi di seppia

Ossi Di Seppia

Rosanna Warren

William Arrowsmith

A collection of poems in Italian and English by the 1975 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature reveals an innovative use of dialogue, journalistic language, song, and other techniques. Reprint.

1962-1970

Satura

Poetic Diaries 1971 and 1972 is one of the Nobel Prize–winning poet Eugenio Montale's final works, and it reveals the last act of the twentieth-century master to be one of splendid negation.

Poetic Diaries, 1971 and 1972

Revised Bilingual Edition

Collected Poems, 1920-1954

Ossi di seppia 1920-1927

Poesie

Jonathan Galassi

The great poet Eugenio Montale was also a remarkable writer of prose whose stories appeared regularly in the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. Butterfly of Dinard is a collection of fifty of those stories, pieces about “silly and trivial things which are at the same time important,” whose sprightliness, subtle irony, and conversational ease defy the limits of traditional fiction. Taken together, they form a sort of autobiographical novel, evoking people, objects, and animals dear to the poet, while simultaneously shedding light on the social, cultural, and political events of the day. The book begins with Montale’s childhood in Liguria and goes on to explore his adult life in pre-Fascist Florence and the onset of Fascism. The last part of the book, focusing on his final years in Milan, forms what Jonathan Galassi in his introduction calls “a mosaic self-portrait of the writer himself, a bumbling yet proud, memory-obsessed Chaplinesque antihero, who sees himself as the only surviving, if unwilling, witness to a disappearing world.”

The stories were first published in book form in 1956; Montale added further stories to subsequent editions, culminating in the final 1973 edition. Butterfly of Dinard is the first complete translation of this edition and includes five stories never before translated into English.

Butterfly of Dinard

1920-1927

Os de seiche

The Second Life of Art Selected Essays

Le occasioni

Una significativa testimonianza del suo iter poetico, dalla giovinezza alla maturità alla vecchiaia, che comprende l'intero arco della produzione montaliana. Nell'introduzione, Marco Forti pone l'accento sulla libertà intellettuale e ideologica del poeta e dell'uomo.

Poesie scelte

Trentadue variazioni

Xenia

The Butterfly of Dinard

Tutte le poesie

Poems by a distinguished Italian author explore themes including love, memory, and the fragility of civilization

The Occasions

Eugenio Montale

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