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Feltrinelli

A Story of Riches, Revolution, and Violent Death

By Carlo Feltrinelli, Alastair McEwen (Translator)

Hardcover | 9780151005581

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Book Description

On a spring evening in 1972, a man climbed up an electricity tower outside Milan intending to place a bomb, but instead fell to his death. Notices in the next day's newspapers announced the botched action of an unnamed "terrorist." It quickly became clear, however, that this revolutionary was one ofContinue

On a spring evening in 1972, a man climbed up an electricity tower outside Milan intending to place a bomb, but instead fell to his death. Notices in the next day's newspapers announced the botched action of an unnamed "terrorist." It quickly became clear, however, that this revolutionary was one of the most famous men in Europe.
Born into a wealthy and distinguished family, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli fought with the partisans against the Nazis, joined the Communist Party, then took over the family's financial empire after the war. In 1954 he founded the house that bears the family name and published the likes of Pasternak, Kerouac, Bellow, and Che Guevara. In the sixties he supported revolutionary movements in Europe and the Americas and befriended Fidel Castro. But in spite of his leftist sympathies, Feltrinelli wasn't proletarian enough to give up his yachts, sports cars, and lavish estates in which he dreamed up his schemes and projects.
Combining personal memories of his father with a carefully documented history of the period, Carlo Feltrinelli has written an unsparing, provocative, and above all deeply engrossing book.

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  • The lost father

    Senior Service Carlo Feltrinelli 464pp, Granta, £20 There are many strands to this biography of the publisher Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, written by his son, Carlo. Apart from the success and the mysterious death, there is the family saga: Giangiacomo w ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • No. 1 Scapegoat

    A bearded man lies flat on his back, arms wide apart, in a field. He has one leg. Nearby, some wires hang from the base of an electricity pylon, to which a box seems to be attached. The man is Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, 46 years old, a political milita ... (read full critics)

    lrb published on Sun, 5 Sep 2010

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Book Details

  • English Books
  • Hardcover 352 Pages
  • Edition: 1st Us
  • ISBN-10: 0151005583
  • ISBN-13: 9780151005581
  • Publisher: Harcourt
  • Pub date: Nov 11, 2002
  • Dimensions: 1484 mm x 1032 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
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