Posthumous Diary / Diario Postumo

Eugenio Montale

Translated and with an Introduction by Jonathan Galassi

“There have been eloquent versions of Montale in English, but they did not catch his agonistic, complex relation to his predecessors: Foscolo, Leopardi, D'Annunzio. Montale culminates what Dante and Petrarch began, and Galassi subtly conveys this fulfillment of Italian poetic tradition.”
—Harold Bloom

Posthumous Diary is not only about solitude and despair and the fear of death; it is also about those things that alleviate existential loneliness: the friendship that comes of shared interests and beliefs, and the consolations of art.

5 x 8 1/4, 206 pages, Paperback, $16.95, ISBN 1-885586-22-1

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About the Translator

Jonathan Galassi, translator of Posthumous Diary by Eugenio Montale, is the Editor in Chief of Farrar, Straus & Giroux. His own poetry and his translations of Montale’s poetry and prose have won international acclaim.

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