Raffaele La Capria , a writer who over time has become a point of reference, especially for many young people who have indicated him as significant for their training and choices, died in the night at the age of 99.
This is due to his very lucid longevity, but also for his intellectual and artistic path, with that slow transformation from narrator into essayist, into a curious, ironic aphorist, often counter-current in his clear reflections and confessions, characterized by great attention to cleanliness and intensity of the tongue.
For a long time a citizen of Rome, he carried Naples in his heart : his works had the Neapolitan city at the center. Author of “Ferito a morte” , with which he won the Strega prize in 1961, he established himself as one of the most significant voices in Italian literature of the late twentieth century. "Wounded to death" then merged with the previous "A day of impatience" (1952) and with the subsequent "Love and psyche" (1973) in "Three novels of a day" (1982).
'' The parties have turned upside down: once it was the old ones who guaranteed for the young, while today the opposite happens and it seems to me a positive sign, a way not to interrupt the chain that connects the different generations and guarantees vitality 'of a culture' ', he loved to comment, just he who for forty, when' 'Wounded to death' ', the novel that revealed him and gave him sudden notoriety, found himself against many of the important names of the literary world while, immediately, it was his peers, the younger ones, who strongly supported him, conquered by the novelty of the style, by his research which found fertile ground in that period, on the eve of the birth of the '63' Group. After the Strega in those same years, the Golden Lion arrived in Venice for the screenplay of "Mani sulla città" by his friend Francesco Rosi, also in this case a story of denunciation.
LIFE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS - Born on 8 October 1922, Raffaele La Capria, after graduating in law from the University of Naples in 1947 and after having stayed in France, England and the United States, moved to Rome in 1950. He attended the International Seminar of Literature at Harvard in 1957 and was for years an esteemed contributor to the cultural pages of the Corriere della Sera. Since 1990 he has been co-editor of the literary magazine '' Nuovi Argomenti ''.
