Scrivere di traduttori, vivere di traduzioni. "La vita agra" di Luciano Bianciardi.

The essay analyzes La vita agra (1962) by Luciano Bianciardi, first highlighting the autobiographical aspects present in the novel and subsequently focusing on the role of the plot as a pretext to argue against the glaring degenerations produced in Italian society by the economic miracle between the 1950s and 1960s . Key elements of the criticism implemented by the Author are the character of the translator and the act of translation, transformed from active components of the world of culture and art for the diffusion of textual works into anonymous and alienated mechanisms subject to the arid and dehumanizing elements of the publishing industry.