Luciano Bianciardi (1922–1971) was an Italian author, journalist and translator, best known for La vita agra and for his critiques of post-war Italian society.

Bianciardi worked as a translator and in the editorial world (including activity linked to the emerging publishing scene such as Feltrinelli). His writing often draws on his move from Grosseto/Tuscan Maremma to Milan and critiques the cultural industry and the Italian economic miracle.

Reviews emphasize Bianciardi's critique of the Italian economic miracle and the depopulation/alienation of urban life in Milan. Works are read as semi-autobiographical, satirical, and historically situated in the 1950s–1960s. Readers highlight vivid scenes, ironic tone, and lasting impact.

For:Readers of Italian post-war literature, students of urban and labor studies, fans of social criticism and autobiographical fiction

 It was a purgatory abyss, and I never precisely knew whether those shadows were men or women, real people, or ghosts.

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 A book that can be read (even now) in an evening, but that stays with you for a lifetime.

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 Luciano Bianciardi was, among the Italian writers and journalists of the last century, an atypical and an irregular figure;

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