Nanni Balestrini

Nanni Balestrini ( born July 2, 1935 in Milan ) is an Italian writer and visual artist who is the Italian Neoavanguardia, a literary movement of the 1960s to count.

Importance

Nanni Balestrini is associated with the literary movement Neoavanguardia. He was editor of the magazine Il Verri, co-director of Alfa Beta and belongs to the group of Italian writers who published in the anthology I Novissimi 1961. In the 1960s, this group expanded to Gruppo 63, whose publications Balestrini edited. From 1962 to 1972 he also worked as an editor at Feltrinelli, cooperated with the publisher Marsilio and published editions of the Cooperativa Scrittori.

Also noteworthy are Balestrini political activities: In 1968, he co-founded the group Potere operaio 1976 an important supporter of Autonomia. In 1979 he was accused of membership in the guerrilla and fled to Paris and later to Germany.

A larger audience was Balestrini the early 1970s by his first novel: we want everything known. In it, he describes the struggles and conflicts in the automobile factory of FIAT. In the following years the social movements of the time were his theme. With the book The Invisible he put the " generation of 1977 " a literary monument. On the one hand the tremendous optimism of those years is clear aand the other was reflected in squatting, the establishment of free radio stations, but at the same time he also portrays the immense repression by the state to these movements. Other important works are I Furiosi, dedicated to the Fußballfankultur of AC Milan, and the publisher, which refers to Giangiacomo Feltrinelli. Especially in his, co-authored with Primo Moroni, Book The Golden Horde is clearly its proximity to workerism. His most recent publication of the novel Sandokan, which deals with the Camorra in Casal di Principe.

Works

German

Italian

Poetry

  • Come si agisce, Feltrinelli, 1963.
  • Ma noi facciamone Un'altra, Feltrinelli, 1966.
  • Poetry Pratiche, antologia 1954-1969, Einaudi, 1976.
  • Le Ballate della signorina Richmond, Coop. Scrittori, 1977.
  • Blackout, DeriveApprodi, 2009.
  • Ipocalisse, Scheiwiller, 1986.
  • Il ritorno della signorina Richmond, Becco giallo, 1987.
  • Osservazioni sul volo degli uccelli, poetry 1954-56, Scheiwiller, 1988.
  • Il pubblico del labirinto, Scheiwiller, 1992.
  • Estremi rimedi, Manni, 1995.
  • Le avventure della complete signorina Richmond, Testo & Immagine, 1999.
  • Elettra, Luca Sossella, 2001.
  • Tutto in una volta, antologia 1954-2003, Edizioni del Leone, 2003.
  • Sfinimondo, Bibliopolis, 2003.
  • Sconnessioni, Rome, fermenti, 2008.
  • Blackout e altro, Rome, DeriveApprodi, 2009.
  • Lo sventramento della storia, Rome, Polìmata, 2009.

Novels

  • Tristano, DeriveApprodi, 2007.
  • Vogliamo tutto, DeriveApprodi, 2004.
  • La violenza illustrata, DeriveApprodi, 2001.
  • Gli invisibili, DeriveApprodi, 2005.
  • L' editore, DeriveApprodi, 2006.
  • I furiosi, DeriveApprodi, 2004.
  • Una mattina ci siam svegliati, Baldini Castoldi &, 1995.
  • La Grande Rivolta, Bompiani, 1999.
  • Sandokan, storia di camorra, Einaudi, 2004.

Stories

  • Disposta l' Autopsia dell'anarchico morto dopo i violenti Scontri di Pisa in: Paola Staccioli, ordine pubblico In, Rome, 2002, pp. 25-31.

Miscellaneous

  • Gruppo 63, L' Antologia (with Alfredo Giuliani ), Testo & Immagine, 2002.
  • 63 Gruppo Il romanzo sperimentale, Feltrinelli, 1965.
  • L' Opera di Pechino, ( with Letizia Paolozzi ), Feltrinelli, 1966.
  • L' orda d' oro (with Primo Moroni ), Sugarco, 1988; Feltrinelli, 1997, 2003.
  • Parma 1922 DeriveApprodi, 2002.
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