Poetry. Bilingual.Translated and annotated by Jonathan Galassi. Italian Nobel laureate Eugenio Montale's POSTHUMOUS DIARY is one of the most "scandalous" and debated books of modern poetry. Planned secretly as a literary time bomb, which would not appear until long after his death in 1981, the diary was published in full in 1996, and soon became the subject of one of the great controversies in Italian literature. "There is great charm and wit in many of these 84 seemingly quasi-impromptu, off-the-cuff poems of Montale's last years, vividly rendered in Galassi's sensitive and compelling translations facing the originals" - Luciano Rebay.
