Letters from Prison - Softcover

Gramsci, Antonio

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ISBN 10: 0704332566 ISBN 13: 9780704332560

Publisher: Quartet Books, 1979

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Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) was one of the most original political thinkers in Western Marxism and an exceptional intellectual. Arrested and imprisoned by the Italian Fascist regime in 1926, Gramsci died before fully regaining his freedom, yet he wrote extensive letters while incarcerated, rich with insight into the physical and psychological tortures of prison. In meticulous detail, Gramsci records how political prisoners, himself included, contend with the fear of illness and death and the rules and regulations that threaten to efface their individuality. Forming an incomparable link between Gramsci's intellectual passion and his emotional vulnerability, Letters from Prison shows a man reconstructing his life while being separated from it, struggling to recapture the primary relationships that once defined his identity. Frank Rosengarten divides more than four hundred Gramsci letters into two companion volumes, complete with a chronology of the thinker's crucial life experiences, an introduction that sheds light on the main experiences and themes in the letters, biographical notes on his correspondents, and a bibliography of works cited in his letters.

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One of the most poignant human stories of our century.--Joseph A. Buttigieg, editor and translator of Gramsci's "Prison Notebooks, Volumes 1, 2, and 3"

These volumes are laced with political insight. They are also shrewd, humorous, brave, and resourceful.--Terry Eagleton "The Guardian "

One of the most poignant human stories of our century.

--Joseph A. Buttigieg, editor and translator of Gramsci's Prison Notebooks, Volumes 1, 2, and 3

These volumes are laced with political insight. They are also shrewd, humorous, brave, and resourceful.

--Terry Eagleton "The Guardian "

These volumes are laced with political insight. They are also shrewd, humorous, brave, and resourceful.--Terry Eagleton "The Guardian "

One of the most poignant human stories of our century.--Joseph A. Buttigieg, editor and translator of Gramsci's Prison Notebooks, Volumes 1, 2, and 3

About the Author:

Frank Rosengarten is professor emeritus of Italian and comparative literature at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of The Italian Anti-Fascist Press; The Writings of the Young Marcel Proust (1885-1900): An Ideological Critique; and Urbane Revolutionary: C.L.R. James and the Struggle for a New Society. Raymond Rosenthal (1915-1995) was a world-renowned translator of Italian literature.

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