Server - Umberto Saba (English spelling)

Italian poet. His real name was Umberto Poli. His mother's side was Jewish. His parents divorced just before his birth. To support himself, he became a sailor and volunteered for the army at an early age, but after getting married, he opened a second-hand bookstore in Trieste and devoted himself to writing poetry. When the Fascist government enacted racial laws, he fled to Paris for a time, but soon returned to Italy and lived in hiding in Florence and Rome. Despite this fate, Saba wrote lyric poems about the people he met along the way, his hometown of Trieste, and various other things, as if he were writing an autobiography. His poems are never difficult to understand, and are written in simple, concise words that are steeped in sharp sensations and deep thought. His works, which were published one after another from his early poems, are collected in "Lyric Poems" (1961). His other works include History and Chronicle of the 'Lyric Poems' (1958).

[Kouhei Kawana]

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イタリアの詩人。本名ウンベルト・ポーリ。母方はユダヤ系。誕生直前に両親が離婚。生活を支えるために、早くから船員や志願兵となるが、結婚後、トリエステに古書店を開き、詩作に沈潜する。ファシスト政府の人種法制定に伴って、一時、パリへ逃れるが、まもなく帰国して、フィレンツェ、ローマに隠れ住む。こうした宿命を担いながら、サーバはその人生の途次で出会った人々や、故郷トリエステの町や、さまざまな事物を、あたかも自伝を書くように、叙情詩に綴(つづ)った。その詩は、ときに意識の流れやフロイトの精神分析の方法を取り入れることはあっても、けっして難解ではなく、鋭い感覚と深い思惟(しい)を背後に潜ませた、平明かつ簡潔なことばで綴られている。初期の詩から次々に発表された作品は『叙情詩集』（1961）に集大成されている。ほかに『「叙情詩集」の歴史と年代記』（1958）などがある。

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