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The first English translation of an Italian poet known for his
uncompromising integrity and strong leftist sympathy for the
working man. Born in a sub-proletarian ghetto in Italy in
1930 under the fascist regime, Luigi Di Ruscio was an urchin
running wild in the countryside, a Communist with clear anarchist
leanings, a jack-of-all-trades. In 1957 he emigrated to Oslo, where
he worked for forty years in a steel-wire factory, spending his
evenings at the typewriter, delving with furious energy into his
native Italian. Di Ruscio insisted that whereas the language of
power is always a contrived, one-way fabrication, the language of
the underprivileged is upfront and direct, aiming straight and
sharp for the truth. Caustic as a shopfloor scouring agent,
exhilarating in its overabundance, humor, and outspokenness,
Selected Poems stands as a testament of tenacity, a record of class
struggle, and a vital presence for our times.
A beautifully crafted novel set in the late 1960s and 1970s Italy,
a tempestuous period that shaped the lives of generations to come
in many countries. What was it really like to be a teenager growing
up in Italy in the 1970s, during a time it has become all too easy
to file away under "years of lead," as the fathers' betrayed ideals
came face to face with the sons' and daughters' rebellions? What
was happening in schools, in assemblies, social centers, and
occupied factories as the postwar "economic miracle" was being
dismantled from within? What moved the foremost French
intellectuals of the time to sign an appeal against the repression
of the student and workers' movement in Italy? What did the bullets
and heroin bring to a halt, and where did they come from? How does
it feel when strategies of terror and police brutality become as
ordinary as a TV dinner and as eerie as the plots of the science
fiction novels you are plagiarizing to impress a girl? How are
metropolitan geographies alchemized in the muscles of a young body
crossing the shady lines between ages and sexes? Luca Rastello
raises these and other questions in an astonishing novel that
splices chunks of plot and historical reconstruction into the free
flow of memory and dream. Rain's Falling Up tracks the trajectory
of a generation while refusing to romanticize its protagonists or
resolve the tensions that powered its volatile energy.
One of the foremost thinkers of his generation, Furio Jesi began to
publish scholarly essays in academic journals at the age of
fifteen. By the time of his early death in 1980, he had accumulated
a body of work that astonishes with its abundance and diversity,
its depth and scope, and, above all, for its unfailing rigor and
brilliance. In Time and Festivity, Andrea Cavalletti collects
Jesi's finest essays, ranging from his groundbreaking work on myth
and politics to his reflections on time, festivity, and revolt. He
explores the significance of texts by Rimbaud, Rilke, Lukacs, and
Pavese and the mythological language of the biblical story of
Susanna. Carefully annotated and referenced, and enriched by a
first-person account of Jesi's intellectual biography, Time and
Festivity provides a precious guide to the methodology and approach
at the core of Jesi's thought, displaying how his personal, vitally
intense via negativa might in fact originate from his early
statement: "All I have ever written is poetry."
A comprehensive collection of texts from the most influential and
iconic figure of Italian second-wave feminism. Recently
rediscovered in Italy and abroad, the works of Carla Lonzi tend to
fall under the remit of art history or feminist theory. Art
historians focus on the texts written in the 1960s, when Lonzi was
still actively working as a critic, whereas feminist scholars
engage with her more openly political interventions, published
after her declared embrace of a separatist feminism. In 1970 Lonzi
decided to leave the art world for good and dedicate herself to her
newly founded feminist collective, Rivolta Femminile. While
recognizing the break in Lonzi’s life and work, this anthology
maps the overall arc of her intellectual and political production,
giving equal weight to her seminal contributions to art criticism
and her trailblazing feminist writings. A comprehensive
collection of texts from the most influential and iconic figure of
Italian second-wave feminism, Feminism in Revolt seeks to shed
light on Lonzi’s versatile approach to literary genres and
compositions by juxtaposing essayistic texts, poems, diary
excerpts, and manifestos.
A representative text of a milieu marked by student protests and
aspirations for moral and political renewal. First published
in Italian in 1968, The World Saved by Kids was written in the
aftermath of deep personal change and in the context of what Elsa
Morante called the “great youth movement exploding against the
funereal machinations of the organized contemporary world.”
Morante believed that it was only the youth who could truly hear
her revolutionary call. With the fiftieth anniversary of the
tumultuous events of 1968 approaching, there couldn’t be a more
timely moment for this first English translation of Morante’s
work to appear. Greeted by Antonio Porta as one of the most
important books of its decade, The World Saved by Kids showcases
Morante’s true mastery of tone, rhythm, and imagery as she works
elegy, parody, storytelling, song, and more into an act of
linguistic magic through which Gramsci and Rimbaud, Christ and
Antigone, Mozart and Simone Weil, and a host of other figures join
the sassy, vulnerable neighborhood kids in a renewal of the
word’s timeless, revolutionary power to explore and celebrate
life’s insoluble paradox. Morante gained international
recognition and critical acclaim for her novels History, Arturo’s
Island, and Aracoeli, and The World Saved By Kids may be her best
book and the one that most closely represents her spirit.
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La rabbia / Anger
Pier Paolo Pasolini; Translated by Cristina Viti; Edited by Dominic Jaeckle
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R660
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Stigmata (Paperback)
Gezim Hajdari; Translated by Cristina Viti
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R480
R423
Discovery Miles 4 230
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Gezim Hajdari (b. 1957) was born in Lushnja, Albania, but has lived
in Frosinone, Italy, since 1992, initially in the ruins of an
abandoned building, but now in an apartment that he was awarded by
the town council after he was awarded the prestigious Montale
Prize. He writes in both Albanian and Italian, but is perhaps more
recognised in his adopted country than in his native land. Stigmate
/ Vrage appeared in a bilingual edition in 2002 and here receives
its first complete English translation. "My identity is Gezim, my
body is my fatherland," says the author.
First published in Italian in 1968, The World Saved by Kids was
written in the aftermath of deep personal change and in the context
of what Elsa Morante called the "great youth movement exploding
against the funereal machinations of the organized contemporary
world." Morante believed that it was only the youth who could truly
hear her revolutionary call. With the fiftieth anniversary of the
tumultuous events of 1968 approaching, there couldn't be a more
timely moment for this first English translation of Morante's work
to appear. Greeted by Antonio Porta as one of the most important
books of its decade, The World Saved by Kids showcases Morante's
true mastery of tone, rhythm, and imagery as she works elegy,
parody, storytelling, song, and more into an act of linguistic
magic through which Gramsci and Rimbaud, Christ and Antigone,
Mozart and Simone Weil, and a host of other figures join the sassy,
vulnerable neighborhood kids in a renewal of the word's timeless,
revolutionary power to explore and celebrate life's insoluble
paradox. Morante gained international recognition and critical
acclaim for her novels History, Arturo's Island, and Aracoeli, and
The World Saved By Kids may be her best book and the one that most
closely represents her spirit.
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A Life Apart (Hardcover)
Mariapia Veladiano; Translated by Cristina Viti
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R360
R323
Discovery Miles 3 230
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Rebecca's parents were born to very different families. One wealthy, one all but destitute, they were united only by their striking mutual beauty. But the sole child to bless their great
romantic fairy tale is a daughter of startling ugliness.
The shock of having given birth to such a monster leads the mother to withdraw both herself and her daughter from the world. Only by keeping her child indoors, away from strangers' eyes, can she protect her from their disgust. But against all odds, with a little help from some remarkable friends, Rebecca discovers a talent for music that proves that inner beauty can outshine any other.
A Life Apart is an irresistible modern fable that will resonate with
anyone who has ever felt that they don't belong.
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