Giorgio Locchi

Giorgio Locchi

Giorgio Locchi in 1977
Born Rome, Italy
Died 25 October 1992(1992-10-25) (aged 68–69)
Paris, France
Occupation Journalist and writer
Nationality Italian
Alma mater Sapienza University of Rome
Period 1956–1992
Notable works Il male americano
Nietzsche, Wagner e il mito sovrumanista

Giorgio Locchi (1923 – 25 October 1992) was an Italian journalist and writer. He was among the founders of GRECE.

Life

Also known by the pseudonym Hans-Jürgen Nigra, he was for a long time the Paris correspondent for the Italian newspaper Il Tempo.[1][2] After graduating in law from the University of Rome, he moved to Paris in the mid-fifties. Here he came into contact with Alain de Benoist, with whom he created the ethnonationalist think-tank GRECE, also known as New Right. By this time he began to write for magazines like Éléments and Nouvelle École. He also collaborated with several magazines and newspapers including La Destra, L'Uomo Libero and Secolo d'Italia.

One of the leading exponents of New Right,[3][4][5] he broke away from it because he was averse to democracy and a supporter of Conservative Revolutionary movement values.[6]

He was the author of several books translated into French, German and Spanish. His works revolved around Roman Empire, anti-Americanism and Nietzsche's anti-Christian thought.

Among the best known of Locchi's workes is the Nietzsche, Wagner e il mito sovrumanista, which was counted among the classics of hermeneutic on Richard Wagner.[7]

His works influenced authors such as Guillaume Faye,[8] Pierre Vial, Pierre Krebs, Robert Steuckers and Stefano Vaj.[9]

Works

References

  1. Una fogliata di libri, Il Foglio, 1 September 2011.
  2. Marcello Veneziani, De Benoist, idee ribelli per superare la crisi, Il Giornale, 23 April 2012.
  3. Adriano Scianca, Giorgio Locchi : Quel giornalista intellettuale che inventò la «Nouvelle droite», Libero, 10 October 2014, p. 26.
  4. Guillaume Faye, Convergence of Catastrophes, London, Arktos, 2012, p. 116.
  5. Marcello Veneziani, Il secolo sterminato, Milano, Rizzoli, 1998, p. 148.
  6. Marco Tarchi, Cinquant'anni di nostalgia, a cura di Antonio Carioti, Milano, Rizzoli, 1995, p. 148.
  7. Paolo Isotta, La rivoluzione di Wagner, Corriere della Sera, 4 April 2005, p. 31.
  8. Entretien Guillaume Faye, Jeune Résistance, n°21, 2001, p. 19.
  9. Alain de Benoist, Giorgio Locchi, Éléments, n. 76, December 1992.

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