Talk:Umberto Saba
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[edit] Sourced material
Let's not remove the only sourced assertion in the whole article. If there is a source disputing the assertion then let's include that too. -Will Beback 02:03, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
Not necesserily a valid idea. The problem with Saba (although he is the most important Italian poet of the last century, superior to both Montale and Quasimodo) is that he is largely untranslatable into English, and thus gets no attention in anglophone lit. crit. The source sited has no legitimacy whatsoever. Wood is an unknown entity, with a political motive, see his own blurb. Joseph Brodsky, who studied Saba in depht, never mentioned anything of the sort. Galassi 03:02, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
- You wrote in your edit summary:
- removed the partisan opinion on saba's alleged homosexuality by a marginal scolar disputed by everyone else in the field
- Do you have any source for this dispute? -Will Beback 03:34, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
Well, this was poorly phrased. There is no dispute at all. Just the Wood allegation, unsupported.Galassi 03:42, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
Also, the allegations are based on the novella "Ernesto". By comparison Robert Musil covered similar themes, but suffered no such allegations.Galassi 03:56, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
But Musil published his novel. It isn't the case of Saba's Ernesto.
