Vita di Carmelo Bene

by Carmelo Bene, Giancarlo Dotto

In una lunga conversazione con Giancarlo Dotto, Carmelo Bene racconta e si il teatro e il cinema, la letteratura e la voce, le passioni e i disgusti. La dissipazione incessante di una vita privata e pubblica che "gioca" al massacro. E mentre si dipana il filo di un'esistenza unica che via via si libera insofferente da ogni gabbia e da qualsiasi tentativo di schematizzazione, più di cinquant'anni di vita culturale, artistica e sociale si srotolano tra le pagine, raccontati da due occhi inquieti e mobili alla cui lucidità spietata niente sembra potere mai sfuggire.

Genres: Nonfiction, Biography

422 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Carmelo Pompilio Realino Antonio Bene, known as Carmelo Bene (1 September 1937 – 16 March 2002) was an Italian actor, poet, film director and screenwriter. He was one of the greatest figures in Italian avant-garde culture.

Also famous for his eccentric behaviour and for mocking the Italian theatre tradition, he took to the extreme the concept of Artaud's Theatre of Cruelty. His first work was the italian version of Caligula, requested to his friend Albert Camus in 1959. Some of his dramatic works were interrupted by police for his supposed blasphemous and outrageous contents, as his play Cristo '63 (Christ '63).

He was also a filmaker, but claimed to have little sympathy for almost all the film-making made after Buster Keaton and Sergei Eisenstein, all his movies were higly criticized by the time of their release for their unusual and cryptic mise-en-scène but gained cult following in the following years.

He often collaborated with french philosopher Gilles Deleuze, writer Pierre Klossowski, italian critic Enrico Ghezzi and many more.

Reviews

[flipperella · Rating 3 out of 5]

Se già si conosce il personaggio Bene, bene. Difficile da seguire altrimenti. Molto belli e interessanti anche i continui richiami ad altri autori. Merita comunque di essere letto, anche solo per gli aneddoti che racconta.

[Marialuigia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Massimo Maestro della mia in-esistenza.