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OverviewBoth a historical text and a living document, The Writer and the People will help to educate and inspire left-wing activists today. This classic work—the only monograph to have emerged from the original workerist tradition—reconstructs the relations between literary production and the image of the ‘people’. The issues it confronts are some of those most central to postwar Italian history as well as to forms of populism that have had such a spectacular resurgence in recent years. Alberto Asor Rosa was one of the central figures of the heretical Marxist traditions of operaismo (workerism)—alongside Mario Tronti and Antonio Negri—first coming to light in the hugely influential journals Quaderni Rossi, Classe Operaia and Contropiano. In this volume, he turns his attention to the formation of a modern national tradition in Italy, the genesis of Italian Marxist historicism, Antonio Gramsci, the relationship between Fascism and the Left, militant anti-Fascism—and does so through a detailed reconstruction and critique of some of the greatest figures of modern Italian literature, from Giovanni Verga to Carlo Cassola and Pier Paolo Pasolini. Considered one of the books that prepared the ground for the ‘long 1968’ in Italy, which can be said to have lasted throughout the 1970s, The Writer and the People is now available in English for the first time. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Alberto Asor Rosa , Matteo MandariniPublisher: Seagull Books London Ltd Imprint: Seagull Books London Ltd ISBN: 9780857423429ISBN 10: 0857423428 Pages: 384 Publication Date: 30 April 2021 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationAlberto Asor Rosa is a writer and literary critic and professor emeritus of Italian literature at La Sapienza University of Rome. Matteo Mandarini is an independent researcher and translator. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |