Sull'Oceano: romanzo [On the Ocean: a novel] [Facsimile]. New York: Tip. Ed. L. Scarlino, 1921.
Title
Sull'Oceano: romanzo [On the Ocean: a novel] [Facsimile]. New York: Tip. Ed. L. Scarlino, 1921.
Description
Stanco is considered one of the most sophisticated of the Italian-language fiction writers, yet it is impossible to find copies of any of his novels, so I'm happy to have one of his more famous novels (taken from the title of Edmondo De Amicis's famous work) even in facsimile.
The real name of Stanco (b. Campobasso 1886 - d. New York, 1954) was Ettore Moffa; he also used a Spanish pseudonym, J. Cansado (Spanish for "tired", like Stanco in Italian). Born in Molise, he worked as a journalist for La Follia di New York from the 1910s, Cordiferro having introduced him to an audience at Beraglia Hall in New York as an up and coming writer published in Naples and Torino. He later became news editor of the Corriere d'America. He also founded a review, Maga Arte, and Divagando.
According to Durante, Stanco sought to develop a poetics of critical realism and social denunciation, coupling it with the description of different social settings, lavish interiors, enormously rich, dark ladies, and impossible loves.
Stanco's production was vast and varied: novels, novellas, poetry, theatrical works, and translations from Spanish, English and French. Bios of him appear in both Flamma and Schiavo. Durante's extended discussion of Stanco's literary style and uniqueness among the Italian writers in America deserves a full reading, as does Martino Marazzi's. There is an excerpt from Il diavolo biondo in Durante, and the full text of that work in facsimile copy is also in the collection.
The real name of Stanco (b. Campobasso 1886 - d. New York, 1954) was Ettore Moffa; he also used a Spanish pseudonym, J. Cansado (Spanish for "tired", like Stanco in Italian). Born in Molise, he worked as a journalist for La Follia di New York from the 1910s, Cordiferro having introduced him to an audience at Beraglia Hall in New York as an up and coming writer published in Naples and Torino. He later became news editor of the Corriere d'America. He also founded a review, Maga Arte, and Divagando.
According to Durante, Stanco sought to develop a poetics of critical realism and social denunciation, coupling it with the description of different social settings, lavish interiors, enormously rich, dark ladies, and impossible loves.
Stanco's production was vast and varied: novels, novellas, poetry, theatrical works, and translations from Spanish, English and French. Bios of him appear in both Flamma and Schiavo. Durante's extended discussion of Stanco's literary style and uniqueness among the Italian writers in America deserves a full reading, as does Martino Marazzi's. There is an excerpt from Il diavolo biondo in Durante, and the full text of that work in facsimile copy is also in the collection.
Creator
Italo Stanco
Publisher
Tip. Ed. L. Scarlino
Date
1921
Format
23 x 15.5cm; 222 p.
Language
Italian
Citation
Italo Stanco, “Sull'Oceano: romanzo [On the Ocean: a novel] [Facsimile]. New York: Tip. Ed. L. Scarlino, 1921.,” Italian-Language American Imprints: The Periconi Collection, accessed April 28, 2024, https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/369.
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