La vita agra is a story of a man who has moved from the country to the city in order to support a wife and her son. He is a disenfranchised man but lives and somewhat enjoys his social life in the local bohemian neighborhood. He spends his days eating and smoking in the cafes and watching some friends play for a local sport team. He shares an apartment with one of his friends in a tenet building where some of his sport team acquaintances also live. He is an educated man and occasionally frequents the local library. After becoming a pariah and then being fired at a company he starts writing headlines at a newspaper though this work is very tedious for him. Through a chain of events and wanting to become connected to the lower class workers he soon becomes passionately involved in a mission to blow-up a corporate office building after hearing about a mine disaster in which several of the workers were killed. He believes the amorality of the mining company is responsible for the workers' demise. He begins a relationship with a woman and they quickly move in together. Things are hard but they find a way to make things work. He finds a translating job for a publishing company and works from home. This work situation suits him better than his previous situations but his work is constantly disturbed by the telephone and relentless annoying salesmen. With the assistance of his live-in girlfriend he is able to translate and type pages to earn a modest living and send money back to his wife and her son. The man eventually comes to the conclusion that his plan to blow-up the office is not a solution.
The story is very much about the effects of consumerism and how the desire to have many things can lead to working more, selfishness, and social decay. It criticizes how city life becomes fast paced and detached from humanity. This is poignantly expressed in the book when a drunk man injures his head and eventually dies because everyone was either too busy or doesn't seem to care to help him. Luciano Bianciardi was a critic of the cultural establishment in Italy during the Italian economic miracle from the 1950's to the late 1960's. La vita agra was a bestseller in Italy after being published by Rizzoli, Bompiani in 1962. I highly recommend this English edition of La vita agra (It's a hard life) by Eric Mosbacher.
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La vita agra, romance de forte caráter autobiográfico de Luciano Bianciardi,publicado pela Rizzoli em 1962, pode ser caracterizado como uma crítica contundente aomilagre econômico italiano, a bem-sucedida recuperação do pós-guerra em curso nos anosCinquenta e Sessenta na Itália. O narrador, que se muda para Milão com a missão terrorista devingar quarenta e três trabalhadores mortos em uma mina de carvão e acaba se tornando umtradutor, tem muito a dizer sobre o mundo do trabalho, o consumo e as relações pessoaisnuma grande cidade. Este texto se propõe a alinhar o romance à crítica do progresso, emparticular, a Walter Benjamin, e a evidenciar sua análise precursora da precarização dotrabalho nas últimas décadas.
Nel recensire La vita agra a pochi mesi dalla pubblicazione Luigi Baldacci mise immediatamente a fuoco la centralit\u00E0 del discorso linguistico all\u2019interno della narrativa bianciardiana. Il presente contributo intende muoversi nel solco tracciato da Baldacci e proporre una lettura di Il lavoro culturale, L'integrazione e La vita agra come riflessioni metalinguistiche e sociolinguistiche polemicamente motivate.
Laureato in filosofia, professore di liceo e direttore della Biblioteca Chelliana di Grosseto, scrive insieme a Carlo Cassola "I minatori della Maremma", un'inchiesta pubblicata su "L'Avanti!" e poi raccolta in volume per Laterza nel 1956. Trasferitosi a Milano nel 1954, lavora come redattore, giornalista, traduttore dall'inglese, sceneggiatore. Tra le sue numerose opere si ricordano: "Il lavoro culturale" (Feltrinelli, 1957), "L'integrazione" (Bompiani, 1960), "Da Quarto a Torino. Breve storia della spedizione dei Mille" (Feltrinelli, 1960), "La vita agra" (Rizzoli, 1962), "La battaglia soda" (Rizzoli, 1964), "Aprire il fuoco" (Rizzoli, 1969), "La solita zuppa e altre storie" (Bompiani, 1994). Le opere complete sono raccolte nei due volumi "L'antimeridiano" (Isbn, 2005 e 2008).... 2ff7e9595c
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