{"id":2005917,"date":"2012-01-08T01:00:58","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T00:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/2012\/01\/08\/la-scomparsa-di-josef-skvorecky\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T16:04:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:04:21","slug":"la-scomparsa-di-josef-skvorecky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/2012\/01\/08\/la-scomparsa-di-josef-skvorecky\/","title":{"rendered":"La scomparsa di Josef Skvorecky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/200px-Josef_skvorecky.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/200px-Josef_skvorecky.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"200px-Josef_skvorecky\" width=\"200\" height=\"326\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31272 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/200px-Josef_skvorecky.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/200px-Josef_skvorecky-184x300.jpg 184w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 200\/326;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lo scorso 3 gennaio si \u00e8 spento a Toronto, dopo una lunga malattia, il celebre scrittore ed<br \/>\neditore ceco Josef Skvorecky . Nato a Nachod (150 km a nord &#8211; est di Praga) il 27 settembre 1924<br \/>\ndopo gli studi di medicina e filosofia all&#8217;Universit\u00e0 Carlo di Praga tra il 1952 ed il 1955 presta<br \/>\nservizio nell&#8217;esercito cecoslovacco . Nel 1948 scrive il suo primo romanzo &#8220;Zbabelci&#8221; sulla liberazione di Nachod nel 1945 dall&#8217;Armata Sovietica (poi pubblicato nel 1958) .Nel 1967 scrive<br \/>\n&#8220;Il sax basso&#8221; (pubblicato in Italia nel 1993 da Adelphi nella traduzione di Giuseppe Dierna) in cui \u00e8 contenuto anche &#8220;Red music&#8221; in cui si afferma che &#8220;nel jazz c&#8217;\u00e8 un \u00e9lan vital, un&#8217;esplosiva energia creatrice che, come in ogni vera arte, toglie il respiro e viene percepita anche nel pi\u00f9 triste dei blues&#8221; . Qui il jazz viene concepito anche come protesta di massa contro i regimi dato che sia i<br \/>\nnazisti che i comunisti lo avversarono e proibirono in Cecoslovacchia ed in quanto lo stesso<br \/>\nSkvorecky era lui stesso anche suonatore di sax basso e concepiva la letteratura e la frase letteraria<br \/>\ncome suonare il sax . Dopo l&#8217;arrivo a Praga nel 1968 dell&#8217;Armata Sovietica emigra nel 1971 a Toronto con la moglie Zdena Salivarova dove fonda la casa editrice &#8220;Sixty &#8211; Eight Publishers&#8221; publicando oltre a Bohumil Hrabal scrittori dissidenti quali , tra gli altri, Vaclav Havel, Milan Kundera e Ludvik Vaculik . Il suo romanzo &#8220;Tankovy prapor&#8221; \u00e8 tuttavia il primo ad essere pubblicato dalla sua casa editrice che conta 227 titoli . Nel 1972 scrive &#8220;Mirakl&#8221;, forse il pi\u00f9<br \/>\ncelebre dei suoi romanzi, pubblicato poi anche in Italia da Fandango nel 2001 nella traduzione di<br \/>\nGiuseppe Dierna . Dal 1971 insegna letteratura inglese e americana all&#8217;Universit\u00e0 di Toronto e<br \/>\ntraduce celebri autori americani quali Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Henry James svolgendo<br \/>\nanche l&#8217;attivit\u00e0 di sceneggiatore . Nel 1977 scrive &#8220;Il racconto dell&#8217;ingegnere delle anime umane&#8221; pubblicato anche in Italia da Fandango nel 2010 nella traduzione di Letizia Kostner .Nel 1984 scrive &#8220;Dvorak in love&#8221; . Nel 1990 viene decorato dall&#8217;Ordine del Leone Bianco, nel 1992 viene insignito del titolo di membro dell&#8217;Order of Canada e nel 1996 viene decorato Chevalier de l&#8217;Ordre des Arts et des Lettres . In Francia tutti i suoi romanzi sono publicati da Gallimard . Milan Kundera ha definito la nascita a Toronto di &#8220;Sixty &#8211; Eight Publishers&#8221; come l&#8217;atto pi\u00f9 importante per la cultura ceca nel XX secolo .<\/p>\n<p>  Giacomo Di Vittorio<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lo scorso 3 gennaio si \u00e8 spento a Toronto, dopo una lunga malattia, il celebre scrittore ed editore ceco Josef Skvorecky . 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