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Description: A website dedicated to the life and works of Nino Frank, the critic who first drew attention to the "film noir" undercurrent in 1940s Hollywood crime films who was also a scriptwriter, memoirist and raconteur and worked with James Joyce on an Italian translation of Finnegan's Wake
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The writer and critic Nino Frank was born in 1904 in Barletta, Puglia, in the far south of Italy. He and his contemporaries across Europe grew up in what they would see as an increasingly mad world – corrupt, unfair, disorganised. Many young intellectuals would rail against authority, laugh hollowly, and seek out older writers also expressing their disgust through what would come to be called ‘humour noir’.
This humour went way beyond a joke, its purpose was deadly serious: Frank later described it as concerned with “les entités suprêmes que sont l’amour, la terreur, le désespoir et surtout la mort” [‘the driving forces of life: love, terror, despair and especially death’]. As a very young man he was drawn to such writers: to Alfred Jarry and his iconoclastic play Ubu Roi ; to Pierre Mac Orlan and his writings, among them Le Rire jaune , about a deadly laughing plague; to Dada and Surrealism; and to the ‘magic
And he lived with another shadow at the back of his mind. There was hardly a decade of his life when he did not suffer a life-threatening illness: aged 6, he almost died of typhoid fever; at 14, he only just survived Spanish flu; at 15 (perhaps a lingering after-effect of the flu) a dose of pleurisy which knocked him unconscious for three weeks. Minor lung troubles throughout his twenties, culminating at 30 in hospitalization in a Swiss TB sanatorium, for three years. At 44, a major lung operation from whic
Dorian d'Oliveira - Dandyesk blog boordevol romantische, symbolische en postmoderne bespiegelingen.