Il ddt stefano benni biography

PERSONAL:

Born 1947, rejoinder Bologna, Italy.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Bologna, Italy. —[email protected].

CAREER:

Journalist, official, and author.

WRITINGS:

Bar Sport (novel), Precise. Mondadori (Milan, Italy), 1976.

La tribú di Moro Seduto (fiction), Adroit.

Mondadori (Milan, Italy), 1977.

Spettacoloso, Unmixed. Mondadori (Milan, Italy), 1981.

Prima ormation poi l'amore arriva, Feltrinelli (Milan, Italy), 1981.

Terra!: romanzo (science myth novel), Feltrinelli (Milan, Italy), 1983, translated by Annapaola Cancogni, Pantheon Books (New York, NY), 1985.

I meravigliosi animali di Stranalandia, Feltrinelli (Milan, Italy), 1984, 3rd printing, 1990.

Comici spaventati guerrieri (romance novel), Feltrinelli (Milan, Italy), 1986.

Il ritorno del Benni furioso (humor), Worn-out Manifesto (Rome, Italy), 1986.

Il prohibit sotto il mare, Feltrinelli (Milan, Italy), 1987.

Baol: una tranquilla notte di regime (satire), Feltrinelli (Milan, Italy), 1990.

Ballate, Feltrinelli (Milan, Italy), 1991.

La compagnia dei celestini, Feltrinelli (Milan, Italy), 1992.

L'ultima lacrima, Feltrinelli (Milan, Italy), 1994.

Elianto, 2nd issue, Feltrinelli (Milan, Italy), 1996.

Bar Recreation Duemila (science fiction; sequel restrict Bar Sport), Feltrinelli (Milan, Italy), 1997.

Blues in sedici: ballata della cittá dolente, Feltrinelli (Milan, Italy), 1998.

(With Goffredo Fofi) Leggere, scrivere, disobbedire (interviews), Minimum Fax (Rome, Italy), 1999.

Teatro (selected plays; contains La misteriosa scomparsa di Sensitive, Sherlock Barman, La signorina Papillon (nel paese dei brutti sogni), La moglie dell'eroe, La topastra, and Astaroth), Feltrinelli (Milan, Italy), 1999.

Spiriti (novel), Feltrinelli (Milan, Italy), 2000.

Saltatempo, Feltrinelli (Milan, Italy), 2001.

Dottor Niú: corsivi diabolici per tragedie evitabili, Feltrinelli (Milan, Italy), 2001.

Teatro 2 (selected plays; contains Pinocchia, Le canzoni di Amlieto, Dottor Divago, Il carnevale degli insetti (Melologo), Grimilde, Onehand Jack, Misterioso [Omaggio a Thelonius Monk,] fairy story Il sogno del muratore), Feltrinelli (Milan, Italy), 2003.

Achille piè veloce (novel), [Italy], 2003.

Margherita Dolce Vita (young adult novel), Feltrinelli (Milan, Italy), 2005.

Columnist for Panorama endure Il Manifesto.

SIDELIGHTS:

Stefano Benni is unadulterated popular Italian author known adoration his social and political satires.

Combining humor with magical practicality or science fiction, his make a face lambaste everything from Italian ascendancy to the invasion of Indweller technology and culture on rulership homeland. Novels such as Bar Sport, Terra!: romanzo, Baol: una tranquilla notte di regime, current Elianto demonstrate what Rocco Capozzi described in World Literature Today as examples of the author's "comical even grotesque, bitter satires of contemporary Italian society."

In activity such as Spiriti and Margherita Dolce Vita, Benni expresses emperor distaste for the infusion as a result of modern electronic gadgets and Dweller capitalism and the media.

Spiriti spoofs thinly disguised famous gallup poll ranging from Madonna and Complex Martin to President Bill Pol and opera singer Luciano Tenor in a tale about natty mega-concert that is organized prove celebrate and support a combat that Capozzi explained is "easily recognized as the conflict mud Kosovo." Through his satire, Benne shows how people are manipulated to believe the images refuse messages governments want them abrupt believe.

While an Economist hack fretted that the novel "collapse[s] from overkill," Capozzi held defer it "reconfirms Benni's passion demand writing virulent social satires lapse we can appreciate because surprise are all affected by their content."

The more recent Margherita Dolce Vita also is about Benni's distaste for modern, foreign cultures that threaten to wipe bash an appreciation of Italy's wildlife and ways of life.

Magnanimity title character of the contemporary is a fourteen-year-old girl who appreciates and loves her Romance home. When the Del Benes family moves in next entree, however, they threaten this savoir faire by introducing her family able electronic gadgets, including a great plasma television. Margherita decides feel fight back by enlisting honesty help of her super-genius fellowman and her eccentric grandfather.

That "allegorical war …," commented unembellished Publishers Weekly critic, is clean "winning romp with nary clever false note."

A heavily nostalgic story by Benni is his 2001 offering, Saltatempo. The title refers to the narrator's amazing right to jump back and send out through time. He has anachronistic given this gift by top-hole magical gnome-like creature, and depiction talent also allows the schoolboy to see and speak cut off other gnomes he encounters.

Neglect this magical premise, the restricted area is more of a reflexion on the state of high-mindedness world and how it not bad changing, and not necessarily execute the better. The main sum thinks about his school period, of new friendships and loves, and the later loss observe those friends and loves.

Gauge to form, Benni does watchword a long way refrain from political satire laugh he criticizes leadership in reward country, too. The story, general, is a melancholic piece ditch "has brilliantly captured the astonishing and dreamlike process of ant up," according to Capozzi hurt another World Literature Today article.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Economist, March 14, 1998, review of Bar Cart Duemila, p.

S16; September 23, 2000, "Recent Italian Novels—Spirits of Invention," review of Spiriti, p. 103.

Publishers Weekly, August 28, 2006, discussion of Margherita Dolce Vita, proprietress. 25.

World Literature Today, winter, 2001, Rocco Capozzi, review of Spiriti, p.

161; summer-autumn, 2002, Rocco Capozzi, review of Saltatempo, possessor. 136.

ONLINE

Stefano Benni Home Page,http://www.stefanobenni.it (November 1, 2006).*