An epic joyful and explosive insurrection from the poet of youth rebellion. For a brief explosive period in the mid-1970s, the young and the unemployed of Italy’s cities joined the workers in an unexpectedly militant movement known simply as Autonomy ( Autonomia ). Its “politics of refusal” united its opponents behind draconian measures more severe than any seen since the war. Nanni Balestrini, the poet of youth rebellion, himself a victim of that repression, has invented a remarkable...
Explosive novel of Italy’s revolutionary 1969 by leading Italian novelist It was 1969, and temperatures were rising across the factories of the north as workers demanded better pay and conditions. Soon, discontent would erupt in what became known as Italy’s “Hot Autumn.” A young worker from the impoverished south arrives at Fiat’s Mirafiori factory in Turin, where his darker complexion begins to fade from the fourteen-hour workdays in sweltering industrial heat. He is frequently late for work,...
An einem Morgen im Frühling des Jahres 1972 wird unter einem Strommast in der Nähe von Mailand die Leiche eines Mannes gefunden, der bei einer fehlgeschlagenen Sabotageaktion ums Leben kam. Schnell stellt sich heraus: Bei dem Toten handelt es sich um Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, die berühmteste und schillerndste Verlegerpersönlichkeit Europas, Spross einer reichen Familie und militanter Linker. Der Roman montiert in virtuoser Weise zeitgenössische Presseberichte, polizeiliche Ermittlungen,...
