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Memories from the Twentieth Century
Luigi Pintor
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Description for Memories from the Twentieth Century
Hardback. From the idyll of his Sardinian childhood to the transformative experience of the anti-Fascist resistance, and from postwar militancy to the dismal regression of Italian culture, the author captures memories that are intensely personal and inseparable from political and intellectual experience. Translator(s): Elliot, Gregory. Series: Italian List. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJ; BGHA; HBJD; HBLW; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 132 x 21. Weight in Grams: 666.
In these three short books - "Servabo: A Fin de Siecle 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 postwar militancy to the dismal regression of Italian culture, Pintor captures memories that are intensely personal and inseparable from ... Read more
In these three short books - "Servabo: A Fin de Siecle 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 postwar militancy to the dismal regression of Italian culture, Pintor captures memories that are intensely personal and inseparable from ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Series
Italian List
Number of Pages
201
Place of Publication
Greenford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857420817
SKU
V9780857420817
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About Luigi Pintor
Luigi Pintor (1925-2003) was cofounder 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.
Reviews for Memories from the Twentieth Century
"His sense of humour, the clarity of his writing and his polemical vigour set Pintor apart from others." -Guardian"