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Erri De Luca

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born

May 20, 1950 in Napoli, Italy

gender

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Literature & Fiction

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Upon completing high school in 1968 Erri De Luca joined the radical left-wing movement Lotta Continua. After the organization's disbandment he worked as a blue collar at the Fiat factory in Turin and at the Catania airport. He also was as a truck driver and a mason, working in job sites in Italy, France and Africa. He rode relief convoys in Yugoslavia during the war between 1993 and 1999.

He is self-taught in several languages including Ancient Hebrew and Yiddish.

De Luca is a passionate mountain climber. A reclusive character, he currently lives in a remote cottage in the countryside of Rome.

Although he never stopped writing since he was 20, his first book is published in 1989, Non ora, non qui (Not now, not here). Many more books followed,...more

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Books by Erri De Luca

Average rating: 3.75 · 1,063 ratings · 150 reviews · 53 distinct works

	Il peso della farfalla 3.50 avg rating — 138 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions	My rating:
	God's Mountain by Erri De Luca, Michael Moore (Translator) 3.79 avg rating — 220 ratings — published 1382 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Il giorno prima della felicità 3.73 avg rating — 124 ratings — published 2009 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Tu, mio 3.66 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 1999 — 9 editions	My rating:
	In nome della madre 3.96 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2006 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Il contrario di uno 3.53 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2003 — 6 editions	My rating:
	I pesci non chiudono gli occhi 3.88 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Non ora, non qui 3.67 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 1989 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Tre cavalli 3.80 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 1999 — 12 editions	My rating:
	In alto a sinistra 3.52 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions	My rating:

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“Parler c'est parcourir un fil. Écrire c'est au contraire le posséder, le démêler.”
― Erri De Luca, Pas Ici, Pas Maintenant

tags: parler , écrire

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“À ce moment là, j'ai dû comprendre pour la première fois que le mal est irrémédiable et qu'il est impossible de réparer un tort quoique l'on fasse ensuite. Le seul remède est de ne pas en commettre et ne pas en commettre est en ce monde l'oeuvre la plus ardue et secrète.”
― Erri De Luca, Pas Ici, Pas Maintenant

tags: mal , pardon , réparer

2 people liked it

“Si on bouge sans cesse, on impose un sens, une direction au temps. Mais si on s'arrête en se butant comme un âne au milieu du sentier, si on se laisse emporter par la rêverie, alors même le temps s'arrête et n'est plus ce fardeau qui pèse sur nos épaules. Si on ne le porte pas il verse, il se répand tout autour comme la tache d'encre que ma plume faisait toute seule, droite en équilibre sur le buvard, pour retomber ensuite, vide.”
― Erri De Luca, Pas Ici, Pas Maintenant

tags: mouvement , rêve , temps , écrire

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