Background
Daniele Del Giudice was born on July 11, 1949 in Rome, Italy.
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Daniele Del Giudice attended the University of Rome.
(While Take-off has much of the charm, humour and poetry t...)
While Take-off has much of the charm, humour and poetry to be found in the best of Saint-Exupéry (whose last flight is evoked in the final chapter), it will also remind the reader of Robert Pirsig's classic Zen and the Art of Motor Cycle Maintenance by its close focus on the question of how the mind approaches problem-solving.
https://www.amazon.com/Take-Off-Daniel-Del-Giudice-ebook/dp/B005BON7P0/?tag=2022091-20
1996
(In eight elegant narratives exploring the experience of f...)
In eight elegant narratives exploring the experience of flying, the author relives his first solo flight, his coming to understand the laws of aviation, and his encounter with an airliner that mysteriously disappeared.
https://www.amazon.com/Takeoff-Pilots-Daniele-del-Giudice/dp/015100269X/?tag=2022091-20
1997
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Daniele Del Giudice was born on July 11, 1949 in Rome, Italy.
As a young adult, Daniele Del Giudice studied literature at the University of Rome but turned his interest to the theater.
At the annual summer cultural festival in Spoleto, Del Giudice met Jerzy Grotowsky, Polish stage director and founder of the Polish Laboratory Theater. Inspired by Growtowsky, he visited Poland for nine months, studying the workings of the Laboratory Theater. It was the late 1960s and Europe’s youth were caught up in political protests and revolution. The uprisings fascinated Del Giudice but disturbed by their militancy, he never took part in them. Del Giudice’s path led him to Eastern Europe, Africa, and the United States, and finally to a writing career in Rome and Venice.
Following his travels, Del Giudice was the literary critic for the Roman daily Paese Seara for thirteen years. He read widely, and the works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad, and Franz Kafka particularly influenced him. He left Paese Seara to write fiction. Two years later, in 1983 Lo stadio di Wimbledon was published. The novel examines the career of Bobi Bazlen, a galvanizing literary force in early twentieth-century Trieste. Bazlen translated the works of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, and promoted the writings of Italo Svevo and Kafka. Yet he wrote very little himself. In the novel, an unnamed narrator makes several trips to Trieste and London and interviews six people, some of whom show him photographs. The narrator finds these interviews useless and decides that he must understand Bazlen through the surviving remains and memories, and by discovering what Bazlen was not. Thus the novel is a study of the idea of absence.
Del Giudice resumes his interest in air travel and the mediation of technology in human perception in his short story collection, Staccando I’ombra da terra. In the eight short stories, pilots describe their experiences from existential and psychological perspectives. The pilots struggle with self-doubt, having to rely on the plane’s instruments rather than on their visual perceptions. Taccando I’ombra da terra won three literary prizes, the Baggutaa, the Flaiano International and the Campiello. His second short-story collection, Mania, shifts focus from aviation history to horror. The stories are about unbalanced characters obsessed with a technical subject or some special interest. The result is always macabre; for example, one character’s worship of a piece of music causes him to murder the composer.
Del Giudice’s concise, restrained style has been compared with that of Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, though its allusiveness confuses some critics. Nowadays Daniele teaches Theatrical Literature at the Theatre Faculty of the IUAV, the University Institute of Architecture.
(While Take-off has much of the charm, humour and poetry t...)
1996(In eight elegant narratives exploring the experience of f...)
1997Daniele’s novels incorporate themes of science and technology but are more philosophical and less plot- and adventure-driven than traditional science fiction. They reflect new Italian scientific realism. Del Giudice examines how humans interpret physical reality.