{"id":254586,"date":"2007-08-17T16:30:28","date_gmt":"2007-08-17T16:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/08\/17\/obituary-luigi-meneghello\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:38:48","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:38:48","slug":"obituary-luigi-meneghello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/08\/17\/obituary-luigi-meneghello\/","title":{"rendered":"Obituary: Luigi Meneghello"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/books.guardian.co.uk\/obituaries\/story\/0,,2150490,00.html?gusrc=rss&#38;feed=10\"><i>The Guardian<\/i><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Luigi Meneghello, who has died aged 85, was one of the most interesting, and according to some critics, the best contemporary Italian writer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a bit about his writing:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The fascist convictions of his teens disintegrated quickly and Meneghello, who had been called up for military service, joined the resistance in 1943 as the Italian state collapsed, setting up a partisan group under the aegis of the liberal socialist and anti-fascist Partito d&#8217;Azione. He gives a striking account of this period in a work of high literary value, <i>I piccoli maestri<\/i> (1964) &#8211; in English, <i>The Outlaws <\/i>(1967) &#8211; one of the few non-rhetorical, and therefore all the more effective, memoirs of the Italian resistance, which is true in every detail. [. . .]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Meneghello&#8217;s first book was <i>Libera nos a malo<\/i> (1963), an extraordinary accomplishment which remains one of the most important Italian works of the last five decades. The title page calls it a novel (romanzo) but it belongs to no traditional genre and is simultaneously an autobiography, an essay about the life and culture of his village, and a reflection on literature, language and thought.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via The Guardian: Luigi Meneghello, who has died aged 85, was one of the most interesting, and according to some critics, the best contemporary Italian writer. And here&#8217;s a bit about his writing: The fascist convictions of his teens disintegrated quickly and Meneghello, who had been called up for military service, joined the resistance in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[1836,4446,1596],"class_list":["post-254586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-cwp","tag-luigi-meneghello","tag-obituary"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363236,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254586\/revisions\/363236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}