Memories from the Twentieth Century by Pintor, Luigi

Memories from the Twentieth Century (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780857425782)

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Memories from the Twentieth Century by Pintor, Luigi

Memories from the Twentieth Century

$21.50
Memories from the Twentieth Century by Pintor, Luigi

Memories from the Twentieth Century

$21.50
Format: Paperback
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In these three short books--Servabo: A Fin De Si cle Memoir, Miss Kirchgessner, and The Medlar Tree, collected in one volume in English for the first time--Luigi Pintor retraces a life marked, often in spite of itself, by politics. At once intransigent and ironic, these autobiographical texts are written "to reorder in the imagination things that don't add up in reality."

From the idyll of his Sardinian childhood to the transformative experience of the anti-Fascist resistance, and from post-war militancy to the dismal regression of Italian culture, Pintor captures memories that are intensely personal and inseparable from political and intellectual experience. Episodes and observations recur across all three books, but the tropes of autobiography are insistently displaced. Sparse and evocative prose, borrowing from the aphorism and fable, struggles to give form to personal and political despair, while Pintor never relents on the attachments and convictions that shape a life.

Author: Luigi Pintor
ISBN-10: 0857425781
ISBN-13: 9780857425782
Publisher: Seagull Books
Language: English
Published: 08/15/2018
Pages: 204
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.60d
By Luigi Pintor
By Luigi Pintor
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Luigi Pintor (1925-2003) was co-founder of the independent communist newspaper il manifesto and one of Italy's foremost political journalists. Gregory Elliot is an independent translator and writer whose most recent translation is Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello's The New Spirit of Capitalism.

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