Biography of Oreste Del Buono

Editorial revolutions

March 8, 1923
September 30, 2003
ODB: this is his initials and at the same time a kind of trademark of the man who has made known in Italy comics of Peanuts by Charles Schulz. Reductive, certainly qualifies, since Oreste Del Buono was one of Italy's finest postwar intellectuals and irregular. However, intolerant of definitions, would not tolerate being called an intellectual, he was much more than many. Gentle, annoyed by the injustices and acts of arrogance, Of Good he collected a considerable amount of "resignation" that led him to emigrate in many newsrooms. Born March 8, 1923 to the island of Elba, Oreste Del Buono since childhood has played cultural activity across the Board. Writer, journalist, critic and editorial consultant, made his debut in 1945 with the book "winter's tale" novel that recounts his experience of deported to a Nazi concentration camp. In later texts tackles the reasons of what defined the historic defeat of his generation: hence "by sheer ingratitude" of 1961, "the worst years of our lives" of 1971; "You will return" of 1976, "the mole" of 1984, "our ruling class" of 1986, "Friends, friends of friends, teachers ..." of 1994. Argumentative essay writer and scathing, literary translator was also a valuable Coupon.
In his booklet there are over 190 works of writers like Proust, Flaubert, Maupassant, Stevenson and Oscar Wilde; ODB was also editor of anthologies of the detective genre, of which he was a great lover and connoisseur. Memorable is his direction from 1971 to 1981 in the comic magazine "Linus" which, in addition to see as already mentioned the genius of Schulz and his Peanuts, became a hotbed of major national and international designers. It is now widely considered one of the great merits of The Good was that he had "cleared" the comic, giving dignity and substance, as, not only selecting the best and most mature exponents of the genre but also making him concretely take their first steps out of the ghetto in which it was relegated since ' 60. Later he collaborated with the "Corriere della sera" and "Panorama", as well as La stampa of Turin, in which for years held a famous column of letters with readers.
This omnivorous cultural predisposition can also be explained by a quirk of the lifestyle of Odb: plagued by an invincible sleeplessness, read and wrote until dawn. He had no way of telling how many times he slept more than three hours per night. Oreste Del Buono, that even in difficult times, he never lost his proverbial irony, passed away on September 30, 2003 after a long illness, at the age of 80 years. For the journalist Nico Orengo, a close friend of the author disappeared, Oreste Del Buono is "one of the intellectuals who have subverted, innovated, changed the landscape of Italian publishing, from newspapers to magazines, the editorial series, like the great editors like Calvino, Vittorini, Salem, Sereni and publishers which Bompiani, Mondadori".
Article contributed by the team of collaborators.