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Dear All,
The Italian author and political activist Nanni Balestrini died last week.
For those who are not familiar with his work, there are many reasons to
remember Balestrini. As a poet, he was a member of the neoavanguardia
movement and Gruppo 63. As a prose writer, he has given us some of the best
accounts of the Italian movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Vogliamo tutto
(1971) and Gli invisibili (1987) were translated into English as "We Want
Everything" and "The Unseen".
"We Want Everything" is a narrative manifesto of the struggles of the mass
worker in Italy???s Hot Autumn, a workers??? inquiry at the FIAT car
manufacturing complex turned into a novel. Balestrini also co-authored with
Primo Moroni L???orda d???oro, 1968-1977 (1988), soon to appear
in English translation. The book is one of the best historical
documentations of the Italian class struggles of the time. As an activist,
Balestrini was part of Potere Operaio and Autonomia Operaia, and because of
this he was charged together with many other militants in the 7 April 1979
repression, from which he fled to France, through the mountains, on a pair
of skis.
Three "In memoriam" articles were published on the Effimera list this week.
One, a tribute by Bifo Berardi; one a video of the truly astonishing
Milleuna as performed by Demetrios Stratos; and a small letter by myself,
addressed to the author post mortem, in a spirit of inchiesta.
La lotta, as they say, continua.
Here are the URLs
http://effimera.org/per-nanni-balestrini-1-balestrini-e-lallegria-che-non-demorde-di-franco-berardi-bifo/
http://effimera.org/per-nanni-balestrini-2-le-milleuna-di-demetrio-stratos-di-nanni-balestrini/
http://effimera.org/per-nanni-balestrini-3-inchiesta-operaia-a-letter-to-n-b-in-the-great-beyond-di-ed-emery/
With best regards,
E.
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