Nanni Balestrini

Vogliamo tutto

An epic joyful and explosive insurrection from the poet of youth rebellion.

The Unseen

Antony Shugaar

A tale inspired by the powerful and violent Camorra Italian organized crime network recently exposed by Roberto Saviano is narrated by a resigned victim who has surrendered to a savage existence in a small southern Italy town under the occupation of his Camorra neighbors. Original.

Sandokan

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Caosmogonia e altro. Poesie complete

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, and sells his blood when money runs low. He fakes a crushed finger to win sick leave. His bosses try to withhold his wages. Our cynical, dry-witted narrator will not bend to their will. “I want everything, everything that’s owed to me,” he tells them. “Nothing more and nothing less, because you don’t mess with me.” Around him, students are holding secret meetings and union workers begin halting work on the assembly lines, crippling the Mirafiori factory with months of continuous strikes. Before long, barricades line the roads, tear gas wafts into private homes, and the slogan “We Want Everything” is ringing through the streets. Wrought in spare and measured prose, Balestrini’s novel depicts an explosive uprising. Introduced by Rachel Kushner, the author of the best-selling The Flamethrowers, We Want Everything is the incendiary fictional account of events that led to a decade of revolt.

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We Want Everything

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Tristano

Antonio Negri

In 1970s Italy a young working class man joins a political protest movement, tries to help set up a free radio station, is arrested, and endures the brutalities of imprisonment.

The Unseen (Second Edition)

Marco Leva

The Novel of Italy's Hot Autumn

Vogliamo Tutto

» 30 years later we find that we are all still like we were in '45 .« Der Künstler, experimentelle Dichter und Schriftsteller Nanni Balestrini (*1935) beschreibt in fieberhaften Rückblenden die miserablen Lebens- und Arbeitsbedingungen im Nachkriegsitalien, sowie die grauenhaften und traumatischen Erlebnisse in einem SS-Kriegsgefangenenlager in Deutschland aus der Sicht eines desillusionierten, doch kämpferischen Überlebenden. Er berichtet detailliert und ohne Punkt und Komma. Nachdem er bei der Rückkehr in die Heimat wegen seiner politischen Gesinnung vielfach abgewiesen wird, findet er Arbeit in den Minen von Carbonia. Die rücksichtlose Ausbeutung der Arbeiter und die reuelosen Faschisten rufen Erinnerungen an den Krieg wach und entfesseln seine kommunistischen Ideale. Der Streik der Bergarbeiter von Carbonia wird » sein Streik « , denn für ihn ist der Kommunismus die einzige Möglichkeit, sich mit Kameraden zu vereinigen und das Schweigen zu brechen. » Carbonia (We Were All Communists) « ist das Zeugnis eines Mannes der mehrere Leben in Sardinien, Deutschland und Australien gelebt hat und noch immer bedingungslos für Gerechtigkeit kämpft. Sprache: Deutsch/Englisch

Carbonia (Eravamo tutti comunisti)(dOCUMENTA (13): 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts, 100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken # 070)

L'editore

Nanni Balestrini is the most significant writer of Italy's revolutionary period in the sixties and seventies, comparable only to Pier Paolo Pasolini. Blackout is the first book of his poetry available in English. Written immediately after he was indicted by Italian authorities and forced to flee, it has at its center the great New York blackout of 1977, a moment of chaos and panic, but also of mutual aid and social solidarity. This comes to stand in for the years from 1968-1979 in Italy, when a more or less open civil war between popular militants and the state escalated from strikes and riots to armed struggle. At once documentary and visionary, it is a poem of heroic and daily struggles for freedom, captured in heroic and daily language. It is a poem of popular revolt being crushed, a poem for our era as well as his.

Blackout

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 fictional form to express the hopes and conflicts of the movement. In spare but vivid prose, The Unseen follows Autonomy’s trajectory through the eyes of a single working-class protagonist—from high-school rebellion, squatting and attempts to set up a free radio station to arrest and the brutalities of imprisonment. This is a powerful and gripping novel: a rare evocation of the intensity of commitment, the passion of politics.

La 4e de couv. indique : "abbiamo fatto i buchi in tutte le reti e poi abbiamo fatto le fiaccole si facevano con pezzi di lenzuoli legati stretti e poi imbevuti d'olio e allora anche lì all'ora stabilita nel mezzo della notte tutti accendevano l'olio della fiaccole e infilavano questi fuochi nei buchi delle grate ma anche lì non c'era nessuno che li vedeva le fiaccole bruciavano a lungo doveva essere un bello spettacolo da fuori tutti quei fuochi tremolanti sul muro nero del carcere in mezzo a quella distesa sconfinata ma gli unici che potevano vedere la fiaccolata erano i pochi automobilisti che sfrecciavano piccoli lontanissimi sul nastro nero dell'autostrada a qualche chilometro dal carcere o forse un aeroplano che passa su in alto ma quelli voltano altissimi lassù nel cielo nero silenzioso e non vedono niente"

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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 fictional form to express the hopes and conflicts of the movement. In spare but vivid prose, The Unseen follows Autonomy’s trajectory through the eyes of a single working-class protagonist—from high-school rebellion, squatting and attempts to set up a free radio station to arrest and the brutalities of imprisonment. This is a powerful and gripping novel: a rare evocation of the intensity of commitment, the passion of politics.

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