Veza Canetti (1897–1963)
Autore di Yellow Street: A Novel in Five Scenes
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Opere di Veza Canetti
"Dearest Georg": Love, Literature, and Power in Dark Times: The Letters of Elias, Veza, and Georges Canetti, 1933-1948 (2010) 8 copie
Viennese Short Stories (Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture, and Thought. Translation Series) (2006) 4 copie
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- Nome legale
- Taubner-Calderon, Venetiana
- Altri nomi
- Magd, Veza
- Data di nascita
- 1897-11-21
- Data di morte
- 1963-05-01
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Oostenrijk
- Luogo di nascita
- Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire
- Luogo di morte
- London, England, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Vienna, Austria
London, England, UK - Attività lavorative
- novelist
translator
Playwright
short story writer - Relazioni
- Canetti, Elias (echtgenoot)
- Breve biografia
- Venetiana "Veza" Taubner-Calderon was born into an Ashkenazi-Sephardic Jewish family in Vienna in 1897. Following World War I, she worked as an English teacher. In the 1920s, as part of the city's avant garde movement, Veza wrote short stories drawn from everyday life for the Viennese newspapers Arbeiter-Zeitung and Neue Freie Presse. After intensified government censorship reduced her opportunities for publication, she disguised her critique in irony and humor, but from then on published little. In 1934, she married writer and future Nobel Prize winner Elias Canetti, seven years her junior, whom she had met in 1924. Following Nazi Germany's Anschluss (annexation) of Austria in March 1938, and ten days after the pogrom known as Kristallnacht in November, the couple fled the country and managed to reach England. There she worked as a freelance translator and writer, often using the pseudonym Veza Magd. Until 1990, when her collection of short stories Yellow Street (Die gelbe Strasse), was published 37 years after her death, Veza Canetti was known mainly as her husband's muse and literary assistant. Her book The Tortoises (Die Schildkröten), finally published in 1999, was an autobiographical novel based on their flight to the UK.
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«La tortuga vive en una coraza dura, pero se la arrebatan porque es tan bella, y cuando no la protege, se queda desnuda. Su secreto es la impasibilidad. Vive de casi nada, de aire, de hojas, se deja cortar, destrozar, romper, y continúa viviendo, muda y pesada. Pero necesita calor. Sin calor, tiene que morir. Si la divisa el buitre, tiene que morir… Si la divisa el tigre, tiene que morir… Tiene también una coraza interior y ésta no se muere. Si se le extrae el corazón, sigue latiendo mucho rato. Si se le desprende el cerebro, sigue arrastrándose. En cambio, sin calor no puede vivir.»… (altro)