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The Writer and the People
The Writer and the People
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This classic workthe only monograph to have emerged from the original workerist traditionreconstructs 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 Negrifirst coming to light in the hugely influential journals
and
. 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-Fascismand 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,
is now available in English for the first time.