Writer and critic Alberto Arbasino
died at the age of 90 in Rome on Monday after a long illness,
his family told La Repubblica daily, the paper he frequently
wrote for.
He was a member of the influential Gruppo 63 writers and
critics group, founded in 1963.
Born in Voghera, southwestern Lombardy, Arbasino got a law
degree and worked as journalist for magazines such as Il Mondo
and the newspaper La Repubblica.
His work included several novels and innumerable essays.
He described himself as an expressionist writer and
considered his novel Super Eliogabalo ("Super Elagabalus", 1969)
as his most surreal and most expressionist book.
In the 1970s he was the host of the TV debate show Match.
In 2004 he won the Premio Chiara for his career.
From 1983 to 1987, he was a member of the Italian Parliament
for the Italian Republican Party
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