A satire on the media and politics full of black humour unfolds as his novel mocks the sad world of the big city, greedy neo-liberalism and the effects of globalisation. The media satire “Baol” (1990) is clearly a spin on George Orwell’s “1984”, as is the “Ministry of Truth”, a TV archive which controls the masses through false images. Despite his macabre, fantastical and exaggerated characters, his stories are close to reality.īenni’s literary output includes novels, collections of short stories and volumes of poetry which have been translated into several languages. He has written some twenty books in a variety of genres which he handles playfully, ranging from political thrillers to fairytales and the grotesque, and his works are especially popular with young readers. Since his literary breakthrough with the science fiction novel “Terra!” in 1983, he has joined the ranks of Italy’s best-selling authors. He is not only a novelist, dramatist and poet but also a journalist and director. Stefano Benni, one of the most well-known Italian authors of political satire, was born in Bologna in 1947.
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