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Alessandro Spina (1927-2013) was the pen name of Basili Shafik Khouzam. Born in Benghazi into a family of Syrian Maronites that originally hailed from Aleppo, Syria,〔() Spina's Shadow: “Darling, this is Alessandro Spina, who is trying to make Italians feel guilty about their colonial crimes.”〕 Khouzam was educated in Milan and published his first story in Nuovi Argomenti. Following his return to Benghazi in 1954, Khouzam spent the next twenty-five years managing his father's textile factory in Benghazi while continuing to write in his spare time. Khouzam eventually left Libya in 1979 and retired to Franciacorta, Italy. Khouzam was associated with various leading Italian writers of his time, including Alberto Moravia, Giorgio Bassani, Vittorio Sereni, and Claudio Magris〔() Le Stagioni di Spina, Corriere Della Sera〕 and his novels were published by various imprints such as Mondadori and Garzanti. His major opus was ''I confini dell'ombra'', a sequence of eleven historical novels and short story collections that chart the history of his native city from the Italo-Turkish War in 1911 to the exploitation of Libya's vast oil reserves in 1964. Although Khouzam individually published each installment of his epic throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the entire sequence was finally issued as an 1268-page omnibus edition by Morcelliana in 2006 〔() I confini dell'ombra. In terra d'oltremare: Morcelliana〕 and was then awarded the Bagutta Prize in 2007. His work has been compared to that of Paul Bowles and Albert Cossery 〔() A Stage Across the Sea: An unjustly-neglected Libyan novelist captured the twisted logic of colonialism, past and present.〕 ==Bibliography== * ''Tempo e Corruzione'' (Garzanti, 1962) * ''I confini dell'ombra. In terra d'oltremare'' (Morcelliana, 2006) * ''Diario Di Lavoro: Alle Origini De I Confini Dell'ombra'' (Morcelliana, 2010) * ''L'ospitalità intellettuale'' (Morcelliana, 2012) * ''Elogio dell'inattuale'' (Morcelliana, 2013) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alessandro Spina」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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