num_pages: 304
description: Cuttlefish Bones, his epoch-making first book, completes the trio of books (with the previously published 'The Occasions' and 'The Storm and Other Things') that won Eugenio Montale (1896-1981) the Nobel Prize in Literature and established him as the Greatest Italian poet since Leopardi. The renowned classicist, translator, and critic William Arrowsmith translated all three volumes."Virtually incomparable. . . . Arrowsmith has quite literally distilled this poetry's essence in order to recompose it with all of its colors, scents, and exquisitely understated potency intact." — Rebecca West
language: English
title: Cuttlefish Bones
titlecomplete: Cuttlefish Bones (1920-1927)
genres: 20th Century, Nobel Prize, Poetry, Literature, Italian Literature, Italy, Classics, European Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 1671
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company