by Giovanni Papini · Noguer y Caralt · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788421741849
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«Retratos» is the essay collection by Giovanni Papini, published by Noguer y Caralt in paperback (244 pages, in Spanish).
Retratos brings together short essays and literary profiles that Giovanni Papini devoted to writers such as Cervantes, Unamuno, Swift, Keats, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Poe and Whitman. With an iconoclastic eye, it combines biographical portraiture with reflection on their works and attitudes, seeking in them keys to his own conflict with the world.
The essays come from the series «Ritratti Stranieri» (1908-1921). In this 1984 edition, Biblioteca Universal Caralt collection no. 75, the translation is by José Miguel Velloso.
For readers interested in the literary essay and in portraits of European authors such as Cervantes, Unamuno or Tolstoy.
Giovanni Papini was an Italian journalist, essayist, novelist, short story writer, poet, literary critic, and philosopher. A controversial literary figure of the early and mid-twentieth century, he was the earliest and most enthusiastic representative and promoter of Italian pragmatism. Papini was admired for his writing style and engaged in heated polemics. Involved with avant-garde movements such as futurism and post-decadentism, he moved from one political and philosophical position to another, always dissatisfied and uneasy: he converted from anti-clericalism and atheism to Catholicism, and went from convinced interventionism – before 1915 – to an aversion to war. In the 1930s, after moving from individualism to conservatism, he finally became a fascist, while maintaining an aversion to Nazism.
