Achille Campanile
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Biography
Achille Campanile was born in Rome on 28 September 1899.[1] His father was one of the editors of the newspaper La Tribuna.Template:Sfn Always a prolific contributor to newspapers and periodicals, Campanile wrote for the newspapers La Tribuna, L'Idea Nazionale and the satirical magazine Il Travaso delle idee.[1]
He became famous for his brief humorous dramatic pieces. In 1925 he published his first theatre work entitled L’inventore del cavallo which was a single-act play.[1] His Futurist plays, such as Centocinquanta la gallina canta (1925), characterized by a taste for word play and surrealist nonsense, won critical acclaim.
He had more popular success with novels such as Ma che cos'è questo amore? (1927). Both his novels and plays show a passion for nonsense and linguistic ambiguity, although his surreal humour often disguises a strong critique of bourgeois mores.Template:Sfn
His Tragedie in due battute (Tragedies in Two Cues) have been rediscovered by the avant-garde of the sixties and the early seventies and are considered anticipations of Theatre of the Absurd.[2] Campanile was active in the post-war period as a television critic.
Works
- Ma che cos'è questo amore? (1924)
- Se la luna mi porta fortuna (1927)
- Agosto, moglie mia non ti conosco (1930)
- In campagna è un'altra cosa (1931)
- Cantilena all'angolo della strada (1933)
- Celestino e la famiglia Gentilissimi (1942)
- Il povero Piero (1959)
- Amiamoci in fretta (1962)
- L'inventore del cavallo e altre quindici commedie (1971)
- Manuale di conversazione (1973)
- Asparagi e immortalità dell'anima (1974)
- Vite degli uomini illustri (1975)
- L'eroe (1976)
- Tragedie in due battute (1978)
Works available in English
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- Italian dramatists and playwrights
- Italian male journalists
- Italian television critics
- Italian humorists
- 1899 births
- 1977 deaths
- Writers from Rome
- Viareggio Prize winners
- 20th-century Italian dramatists and playwrights
- Italian male dramatists and playwrights
- 20th-century Italian male writers
- 20th-century Italian journalists