Giuseppe Berto

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).

Giuseppe Berto
Born	(1914-12-27)27 December 1914 Mogliano Veneto, Italy
Died	1 November 1978(1978-11-01) (aged 63) Rome, Italy
Occupation(s)	Novelist and screenwriter
Years active	1947–1978

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

• Eleonora Duse (1947)
• La tua donna (1954)
• The Wanderers (1956)

Screenwriter

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

1. "Giuseppe Berto". Words Without Borders. Retrieved 14 January 2021.

External links

• Giuseppe Berto at IMDb
• "The girl goes to Calabria" at The Short Story Project.