Umberto Saba Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 19 pages of information about the life of Umberto Saba.

Umberto Saba Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 19 pages of information about the life of Umberto Saba.
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Dictionary of Literary Biography on Umberto Saba

Ambiguity or duality could be the dominant character of Umberto Saba's life and poetry. Even in his concept of a poet (stated in Scorciatoie e raccontini [Shortcuts and Small Tales. 1946]) Saba posits a duality of child/man, ever present at the moment of artistic creation:

Solo là dove il bambino e l'uomo coesistono, in forme il più possibile estreme, nella stessa persona, nasce--molte altre circostanze aiutando--il miracolo: nasce Dante. Dante è un piccolo bambino, continuamente stupito di quello che avviene a un uomo grandissimo; sono veramente "due in uno."
(Only when the child and the adult coexist in the most extreme forms, in the same person, can we say that the miracle happens: Dante is born. Dante is a small child, constantly surprised by what happens to a very great man; they are really "two in one.") More important than a judgment on Dante, this observation...

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