Giuseppe Berto
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Born | Mogliano Veneto, Italy | 27 December 1914
Died | 1 November 1978 Rome, Italy | (aged 63)
Occupation(s) | Novelist and screenwriter |
Years active | 1947–1978 |
Giuseppe Berto (27 December 1914 – 1 November 1978) was an Italian writer and screenwriter. He is mostly known for his novels The Sky Is Red (Il cielo è rosso) and Incubus (Il male oscuro).
He was a prisoner at Camp Hereford from 1943 to 1946.[1]
Selected works
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Eleonora Duse (1947)
- La tua donna (1954)
- The Wanderers (1956)
Screenwriter
[edit]Partial list of screenplays written by Berto:
- "Il cielo è rosso" (The Sky is Red), film directed by Claudio Gora
- "La cosa buffa" (The Funny Thing), film directed by Aldo Lado
- "Salvo D'Acquisto", film directed by Romolo Guerrieri (1974)
- "Il male oscuro" (Dark Illness), film directed by Mario Monicelli (1990)
- "Anonimo veneziano" (The Anonymous Venetian), film directed by Enrico Maria Salerno (1970)
- "Oh, Serafina!", film directed by Alberto Lattuada (1976)
References
[edit]- ^ "Giuseppe Berto". Words Without Borders. Retrieved 14 January 2021.
External links
[edit]- Giuseppe Berto at IMDb
- "The girl goes to Calabria" at The Short Story Project.