{"product_id":"memories-from-the-twentieth-century-luigi-pintor-9780857425782","title":"Memories from the Twentieth Century","description":"In these three short books--\u003ci\u003eServabo: A Fin De Si cle Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMiss Kirchgessner\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Medlar Tree\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Luigi Pintor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0857425781\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780857425782\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Seagull Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/15\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 204\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.60d","brand":"Luigi Pintor","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46136005394687,"sku":"9780857425782","price":21.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_35b09f34-88a3-405f-b68f-4b3b93f1707e.jpg?v=1726415399","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/memories-from-the-twentieth-century-luigi-pintor-9780857425782","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}