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Vittorio Orsenigo (Milan, 5 August 1926) is an Italian short story writer, novelist and theater director. Most of his fame came in the later years of his life, as he developed his career as a writer when he was almost 80.

Vittorio Orsenigo
BornVittorio
(1926-08-05) August 5, 1926 (age 95)
Milan
Occupationwriter, theater director
LanguageItalian
NationalityItalian
CitizenshipItalian
Literary movementLinea Lombarda
Notable awardsPremio Bergamo
1996
Years active1950-
Website
www.vittoriorsenigo.it

Life



Theater Director


Orsenigo started working in the Italian artistic panorama after the Second World War. Following the invitation of Elio Vittorini, he presented a selection of theatrical works by Christopher Isherwood, Bertold Brecht and Wystan Hugh Auden, whose works were not yet popular in Italy in that period. In 1950 Orsenigo started working at Piccolo Teatro di Milano thanks to its director Paolo Grassi. He directed Alfred Jarry's piece Ubu Roy and Guillaume Apollinaire. In that occasion, Orsenigo met Pierluigi Pizzi, who was a beginner at that time. The two started working together and Pizzi drew scenography and costumes for Orsenigo's works. Later in the Eighties, Salvatore Quasimodo stated he was interested in Orsenigo's theatrical works.[1] In the Fifties, Orsenigo also met the writer and critic Raffaele Carrieri. Orsenigo was also a good painter and Carrieri loved his works. Because of this, in 1981 Orsenigo had his first exhibition in Milan for which Achille Bonito Oliva wrote the catalogue.[2] Orsenigo exhibited again in 1984 in Milan[3] and in 1985 at Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara.[4]


Writer


In the Fifties, Orsenigo had already developed some interest in writing. His first book was a collection of poems named Come gli occhi di sabbia; later in 1954 he published the tale La demenza di giacomo. But only in the Nineties he restarted his activity with La linea gotica and published some works on the Italian magazines Resine Letterarie and La nuova prosa. In the same years Orsenigo also performed translations for the Sellerio and Archinto. In 2001 his friend Giuseppe Pontiggia wrote the preface of Settore editoriale; Orsenigo exchanged the courtesy five years later for Pontiggia's Lettere. The Italian critic Massimo Onofri started looking at Orsenigo's work in 2004. One year after, when Commedianti a Milano was published, he stated that "more than a memorial, it is a milanese meditation. [...] if Visite [5] concerns the irremediabile loss of the only loved son, Commedianti would look as a book of euphoric and utopica youthness, filled with uncompleted novels and never published books, uncompleted as it is life itself. But remain the fact that writing for true writers always turns around few obsessions: Quasimodo got a Nobel Prize and disappeared. Vittorini, Banfi, Carrieri – a part from the Nobel – made the same joke. It is not their fault, but the raging of deaths makes the search for the detail more difficult".[6]

In 2008, Orsenigo was already 83 years old and succeeded to extend his fame with two best-sellers: L'uccellino della radio and La camera d'ambra, the latest published with a preface by Sergio Romano. His novels were published for the publishers Archinto and Rizzoli Imprimatur; in 2015 was the time for A Enea Finzi non sparano in fronte, set during the war period.


Style


Orsenigo has a direct realistic style, but filled with imaginations and frequent digressions. He wrote about places where he used to live: Milan during the Second World War (Commedianti a Milano, L'uccellino della radio), mountains and woods (Il pizzini di amblar) and exotic lands (Una camera tutta d'ambra, Tanti viaggi). Daniela Marcheschi noted that Orsenigo is "Bizzar and digressive following a humoristic tradition that, through Porta and Rajberti, had prosperous developments in Milan's culture and in the Italian literature of the XIX century afterwords".[7]


Works



Poetry



Narrative



Translations and curatorships



References


  1. Salvatore Quasimodo, Il poeta a teatro in Spirali, 1984: "La compagnia del 'TB 49' ha presentato la sera del 27 giugno sul palcoscenico del Piccolo Teatro di Milano "Ubu Roi" di Alfred Jarry. La sala non aveva tutti i posti occupati, è vero; forse l'inizio dell'estate allontana il pubblico dagli spettacoli di teatro puro o la diffidenza verso quel 'TB 49' ermetico ha reso più intima e polemica la rappresentazione di Ubu-Roi. C'erano giovani, però: il gruppo più pericoloso della cultura in movimento: i pittori astrattisti e neorealisti, poeti e scrittori accesi da fuochi sinuosi e ironici, esistenzialisti votati alla chitarra degli chansonniers e ragazze vibranti, senza noia e nausea."
  2. Achille Bonito Oliva, Vittorio Orsenigo, Studio Ennesse, Milano, 1982
  3. Vittorio Orsenigo, Catalogo della mostra, 16 aprile 1984. Testo di Giorgio Verzotti ed uno dell'Artista. Con 23 ill., Galleria Arte Borgogna, 1984
  4. Vittorio Orsenigo, Catalogo della mostra, Galleria Civica di Arte Moderna - Palazzo Diamanti, Galleria Massari, 20 ottobre - 24 novembre 1985. Testo di Gèrard-George Leimaire. Stralci critici di Raffaele Carrieri, Franco russoli, Achille Bonito Oliva, Italo Mussa. Con 5 ill. a colori, Comune di Ferrara, 1985
  5. Referring to the novel Visite guidate
  6. "più che una memoria, è una meditazione milanese. [...] se le Visite hanno a che fare con la perdita irrimediabile dell'unico e amatissimo figlio, i Commedianti parrebbe il libro di un euforica e utopica giovinezza, folta di romanzi incompiuti e di volumi mai pubblicati, incompiuta essa stessa come la vita. Ma rimane il fatto che la scrittura dei veri scrittori ruota sempre attorno a poche ossessioni: Quasimodo si è preso il Nobel ed è sparito di scena. Vittorini, Banfi, Carrieri – Nobel a parte – stesso scherzo. Non sarà colpa loro ma l'imperversare delle morti rende la ricerca del dettaglio più difficile". Massimo Onofri, Il Diario della settimana, n° 36, anno X, 23 settembre 2005
  7. Afterword for Cosa trovi nell'acqua, 2014, Archinto




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