Nationality Italian Name Luciano Bianciardi | Role Journalist | |
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Born 14 December 1922Grosseto, Italy ( 1922-12-14 ) Occupation Journalist, short story writer, novelist, translator Notable works Il lavoro culturaleL'integrazioneLa vita agra Movies La vita agra, Secret Fantasy Books La vita agra, Garibaldi: Democracy and Civil Rights Children Luciana Bianciardi, Marcello Bianciardi Parents Atide Bianciardi, Adele Guidi Similar People Maria Jatosti, Massimo Coppola, Carlo Lizzani, Riccardo Bacchelli, Pasquale Festa Campanile | ||
CultBook - La vita agra (Luciano Bianciardi)
Luciano Bianciardi ([luˈtʃano bjanˈtʃardi]; 14 December 1922 – 14 November 1971) was an Italian journalist, translator and writer of short stories and novels.
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- CultBook La vita agra Luciano Bianciardi
- Luciano Bianciardi e la Milano anni 60 il mutamento antropologico
- Novels
- English editions
- Essays
- Short stories
- Journalistic collections
- Complete works
- Filmography
- References
He contributed significantly to the cultural ferment in post-war Italy, working actively with various publishing houses, magazines and newspapers. His work is characterized by periods of rebellion against the cultural establishment, to which he also belonged, and by a careful analysis of social habits during Italian economic miracle.
He was the first Italian translator of Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, Saul Bellow's Henderson the Rain King, John Steinbeck's The Winter of Our Discontent and Travels with Charley, Jack London's John Barleycorn, J.P. Donleavy's The Ginger Man and William Faulkner's A Fable and The Mansion.
Among the others, he also translated: Stephen Crane's Maggie and The Red Badge of Courage, Fred Hoyle's The Black Cloud, Osamu Dazai's The Setting Sun, Cyril Northcote Parkinson's Parkinson's Law, Mary Renault's The King Must Die, Brendan Behan's Borstal Boy, Irwin Shaw's Tip on a Dead Jockey, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World Revisited, Richard Brautigan's A Confederate General from Big Sur, Thomas Berger's Little Big Man and Killing Time.