Biography of Alberto Bevilacqua

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27 June 1934 9 September 2013 Narrator of Fame and success, alchemist of fantasy that makes tracks expertly through the contradictions of reality, in a continuous game of exchanges, Alberto Bavilacqua was born in Parma on June 27, 1934. Attracts attention from an early age by Leonardo Sciascia, who published the first collection of short stories "the dust on the grass" (1955). He debuted as a poet in 1961 by publishing "the friendship lost." International success comes with the now famous "La Califfa" (1964), became film (which he directed) and starring Ugo Tognazzi and Romy Schneider. The protagonist, Irene Corsini, in his vitalistic vibrate between fierezze and dropouts, inaugurates the Gallery of the great female characters of Bevilacqua, while Annibale Doberdò epitomises an emblematic figure of industrial land in the Italian province of the years ' 60. One of the most important novel of the Decade is "This kind of love" (1966, Campiello prize), in which the quarrel between the summons of their land, the province of Parma and the commitment of life in the capital, he shakes his restless conscience of the intellectual protagonist; theme everywhere in fiction by Bailey, along with the story of passionate love and moods lyrics, fantastic, visionary and made dense style body and not alien from an albeit cautious linguistic experimentalism. Provincial of his heroes of the epic large and petty, Bailey had already provided a splendid fresco in "a city in love" (1962, republished in a new draft in 1988). Intellectually engaged and present in Italian life since the beginning of the years ' 60, critical journalist, polemicist, Alberto Bevilacqua has always been. His narrative production, always accompanied by great success, also won several awards, including the appreciation of the major Italian literary awards: among his winning titles include "cat's eye" (1968, Premio Strega), "A mysterious journey" (1972, Premio Bancarella) and "enchanted" senses (1991, premio Bancarella). Intense and continuous, parallel and never always depends on the activity of the Narrator, the poetic production of Bailey's collection in the works: "cruelty" (1975), "image and likeness" (1982), "my life" (1985), "the body" (1988), "secret messages" (1992) and "Small matters of eternity" (Einaudi, 2002). Bevilacqua's works have been widely translated in Europe, United States, Brazil, China and Japan. As wrote effectively Maurizio Cucchi "Love and eroticism, awareness of the indissoluble ties not only with their country of origin, but also with the parental figures, are other essential elements of his poetry, which tended, evident even in his most recent collection (" blood ties "), it seems to bring back ceaselessly to present suggestions, events, situations taken from a remote memory also." Alberto Bevilacqua died on September 9, 2013 at the age of 79 years, after a long illness. Leaves his partner, the actress and writer Michela Miti (Michela M).
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