Balestrini Nanni - The Unseen - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: For a brief explosive period in the mid - 1970s the young and the unemployed of Italy's cities joined the workers in an unexpectedly militant movement known simply as Autonomy (Autonomia). Its politics of refusal united its opponents behind draconian measures more severe than any seen since the war. Nanni Balestrini the poet of youth rebellion himself a victim of that repression has invented a remarkable fictional form to express the hopes and conflicts of the movement. In spare but vivid prose The Unseen follows Autonomy's trajectory through the eyes of a single working - class protagonist from high - school rebellion squatting and attempts to set up a free radio station to arrest and the brutalities of imprisonment. This is a powerful and gripping novel: a rare evocation of the intensity of commitment the passion of politics.
Title: The Unseen
Author(s): Balestrini Nanni
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781844677672
Pages: 254 Pages
Publication Date: 1/2/2012
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction