The Writer and the People
Rosa, Alberto Asor / Mandarini, Matteo
This now classic work--the only monograph to have emerged from the original Workerist tradition--reconstructs the relations between literary production and the image of the 'people'. The issues it confronts are some of the most central to post-War Italian history as well as to forms of populism that have had such a spectacular resurgence in recent years. Asor Rosa, one of the central figures of the heretical Marxist traditions of Operaismo (Wo...