Biography of Alberto Arbasino

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January 22, 1930 the writer and essayist Alberto Arbasino was born in Voghera day January 22, 1930. He graduated in law, specializing later in international law at the University of Milan. The breakthrough as a writer takes place in 1957: his editor is Italo Calvino. The first stories of Arbasino are initially published in magazines, then will be collected in "small" and "the anonymous Lombard". A great admirer of Carlo Emilio Gadda, Arbasino analyzes the writing in various works: in "the engineer and the poets: interview with c. e. Gadda" (1963), "the grandchildren of the 1960 engineer: even in sixty locations" (1971), and in his essay "Genius Loci" (1977). At the beginning of the literary career include reportage for the weekly "the world", written by Paris and London, then collected in the books "Parigi, o cara" and "Letters from London". Arbasino worked for newspapers "day" and "Corriere della sera". Since 1975 he collaborated with the newspaper "La Repubblica" for which weekly writes short letters of protest against the ills of Italian society. In 1977 leads on Rai 2 "Match" program. Italian Parliament sees political activity from 1983 to 1987, elected as an independent candidate for the Italian Republican party. It is not unusual for Abrasino review and rewrite their own works, such as the novel "Brothers of Italy"--his most significant text-written for the first time in 1963 and rewritten both in 1976, both in 1993. One of the leaders of the Group "63", the literary production of Alberto Arbasino ranges from novel to fiction ("a country without", 1980). He considers himself an expressionist writer, and considers "Super Eagle" his book more and more surrealist expressionist. Author of numerous titles, is a sophisticated and experimental, using long digressions metaletterarie and literature in many languages; his work also encroaches into the roles of journalist, theater critic and musical and intellectual. It is also the author of poems ("Matinee, 1983) and often worked in theatre; as a Director include the staging of "La Traviata" (1965, by Giuseppe Verdi) in Cairo and "Carmen" by Bizet at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna (1967). For the civil value of his speeches, he was told that is heir to the tradition of enlightenment lombarda (that of Giuseppe Parini).