Giuseppe Berto

Giuseppe Berto (27 December 1914 – 1 November 1978) was an Italian writer and screenwriter. He is mostly known for his novels Il cielo è rosso (The Sky Is Red) and Il male oscuro.

Contents

• Selected works
• Selected filmography
• References

Selected works

Il cielo è rosso a novel, published in 1947, about a group of displaced teenagers during World War II (The Sky Is Red – translation by Angus Davidson)

Opere di Dio short stories, published in 1948 (The Works of God and Other Stories – translation by Angus Davidson)

Il brigante a novel, published in 1951 (The Brigand – translation by Angus Davidson)

Il male oscuro a "novel of neurosis and psychoanalysis", which in 1964 won him the Viareggio Prize and the Campiello Prize (Incubus – translation by William Weaver)

La cosa buffa a novel, published in 1966 (Antonio in Love – translation by William Weaver)

Anonimo Veneziano a novel, published in 1971 (Anonymous Venetian – translation by Valerie Southorn)

La Passione secondo noi stessi (The Passion According to Ourselves), a 1972 play (not translated into English)

La gloria a novel, published in 1978, about Judas's betrayal of Jesus (not translated into English)

Selected filmography

Eleonora Duse (1947)

La tua donna (1954)

The Wanderers (1956)