Alberto Arbasino
Italian writer and politician (1930–2020) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Nino Alberto Arbasino (22 January 1930 – 22 March 2020) was an Italian writer, essayist, and politician.
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Nino Alberto Arbasino | |
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Born | (1930-01-22)22 January 1930 Voghera, Lombardy, Italy |
Died | 22 March 2020(2020-03-22) (aged 90) Milan, Lombardy, Italy |
Occupation | Writer, essayist |
Language | Italian |
Alma mater | University of Milan Harvard University University of Pavia |
Literary movement | Neoavanguardia |
Notable works | Super Elagabalus |
Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
In office 12 July 1983 – 1 July 1987 | |
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Political party | Italian Republican Party |
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Among the protagonists of Group 63, his literary production has ranged from novels (Fratelli d'Italia of 1963, rewritten in 1976 and 1993) to essay (for example Un Paese senza, 1980). He considered himself an expressionist writer, and he considered Super Eliogabalo his most surrealist and also his most expressionist book: "Especially for the descriptions of the places, which are always dreamlike and delusional".[1]