Giuseppe Berto Explained
Giuseppe Berto |
Birth Date: | 27 December 1914 |
Birth Place: | Mogliano Veneto, Italy |
Death Place: | Rome, Italy |
Occupation: | Novelist and screenwriter |
Yearsactive: | 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
- 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
Screenwriter
Partial list of screenplays written by Berto:
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Giuseppe Berto. 14 January 2021. Words Without Borders.