Marco Belpoliti

Marco Belpoliti (born 1954) is an Italian writer, essayist and critic, who contributes regularly to La Repubblica and L'Espresso, and is currently a professor at the University of Bergamo. He is the author of many books and edited the Einaudi edition of the complete works of Primo Levi. Marco Belpoliti was born in Reggio Emilia in 1954 and graduated from the University of Bologna in 1978 having completed a thesis on Semiotics supervised by Umberto Eco. His first published work was his novel Confine: vite immaginarie del clown in 1986. He now teaches Sociology of literature and Italian literature at the University of Bergamo. He is co-editor of the literary magazine Riga, which he co-founded in 1991. Since 1998 he has been a regular contributor to La Stampa and, from 2000, has produced a weekly literary review column to L'Espresso. His contributions to La Repubblica began in 2016. Confine: vite immaginarie del clown, Elitropia, Reggio Emilia, 1985. Giardino pensile, Libreria Vecchia Reggio, Reggio Emilia 1987 Quanto basta, Rusconi, Milano 1989 Storie del visibile. Lettura di Italo Calvino, Luisè, Rimini 1990 ; Stati della geometria con calore, Classezero, Monza 1991 Diario dell'occhio, Bacacay, Bergamo 1993; Le lettere, Firenze, 2008, ; Italo, Sestante, Ripatransone 1995 2006 Primo Levi, Bruno Mondadori, Milano 1998 Collana Piccola Biblioteca, Guanda, Parma, 2017, . (a cura di, con Gianni Canova e Stefano Chiodi), Annisettanta. Il decennio lungo del secolo breve, Skira, Ginevra-Milano 2007, ; La foto di Moro, Nottetempo, Roma 2008 ; Il tramezzino del dinosauro: 100 oggetti, comportamenti e manie della vita quotidiana, Guanda, Parma-Milano 2008 Il corpo del capo, Guanda, Parma-Milano 2009 Berlusconi. Le corps du chef, Nouvelles éditions Lignes, Paris 2010 Senza vergogna, Guanda, Parma-Milano 2010 Pasolini in salsa piccante, con 8 foto di Ugo Mulas, Guanda, Parma-Milano 2010 La canottiera di Bossi, Guanda, Parma-Milano 2012 Risentimento, (ebook) Guanda, Parma-Milano 2012 Visioni, (ebook), doppiozero, Milano 2012 Da quella prigione.