Who is your favorite Italian writer?

Answer 1

Without a doubt, the great Umberto Eco.

His works are intelligent, always thought provoking; and his masterpiece "Foucault's Pendulum" actually predicts the craze that becomes the DaVinci Code (only Eco did it SO much better).

Here's a website.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umberto_Eco

Answer 2

"Lovers reading of each others bodies... differs from the reading of written pages... it starts at any point, skips, repeats itself, goes backward insists, ramifies, in simultanious and divergent messages. Converges again, has moments of irritation, turns the page, finds it's place and get's lost again."

If on a winters night a traveller. 1979


"...Yes, but at the beginning nobody knew it, -- Qfwfq explained,-- I mean, you could foretell it perhaps, but instinctively, by ear, guessing. I don't want to boast, but from the start I was willing to bet that there was going to be a universe, and I hit the nail on the head; on the question of its nature, too, I won plenty of bets, with old Dean."




Italo Calvino.



For poetry. Christina Rosetti and Dante.

Answer 3

Italo Calvino

Answer 4

Eco . . . Foucoult's Pendulum, Isle of the Day Before, Name of the Rose . . . these are master-works. Dante was important, is important, but for my buck, give me contemporary relevance and the world of ideas, not folk-infused religious peregrination.

Answer 5

Yeah, Calvino for weirdness & Eco for depth of thought are pretty good, but for sheer readability, you've got to go with Dino Buzzati.

Answer 6

Dante

Answer 7

Dante Alighieri is my favourite.
Here's a good link regarding him:-
http://classiclit.about.com/od/alighieridante/