{"product_id":"the-unseen-isbn-9781844677672","title":"The Unseen","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 (\u003ci\u003eAutonomia\u003c\/i\u003e). Its “politics of refusal” united its opponents behind draconian measures more severe than any seen since the war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNanni 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.“Lucid, poetic, unforgettable.”—\u003ci\u003eLa Stampa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Unseen\u003c\/i\u003e isn’t documentary writing, but it tells us far more than any documentary about a troubled phase in our history; how it was experienced, and most of all how it was lived in the imagination.”—\u003ci\u003eCorriere della Sera\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Not just a beautiful novel ... it is the story of part of a generation in our country, who dreamed a different future and believed in it, believed in the possibility of making it real.”—\u003ci\u003eLinus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“What [Balestrini] narrates is not a fairy tale, but a terrifying experience. Not just his own, but also that of a lost generation who thought possible another world beside the world, who dreamt of workers’ power, of autonomy, who revolted against everything, school, family, clergy, political parties, “historical compromise,” State, police, boredom ... The Unseen is, perhaps, the first true novel of the European Left.”—\u003ci\u003eLibération\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Balestrini offers a very lucid document, which is both the memory and the assessment of a disoriented generation. The Left now has its novel.”—\u003ci\u003eL’Événement du jeudi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“We should be grateful to Nanni Balestrini for having engaged his writing with this cruel sentimental education of a young man living in the seventies.”—Rossana Rossanda, \u003ci\u003eil manifesto\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The political passion of the rebel Balestrini is equalled by his literary vocation ... the finale is not unworthy of Bontempelli or Calvino.”—\u003ci\u003eIl Giornale\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A work of high literary quality. Among many novels and elegantly crafted pieces of fiction ... The Unseen has the courage to face an incandescent matter of reality, rich in implications that involve not only the literati but also a wider public.”—\u003ci\u003eL’Unità\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eNanni Balestrini\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Milan in 1935 and was a member of the influential avant-garde Gruppo 63, along with Umberto Eco and Eduardo Sanguineti. He is the author of numerous volumes of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eBlackout\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIpocalisse\u003c\/i\u003e, and novels such as \u003ci\u003eTristano\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVogliamo Tutto\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLa Violenza Illustrata\u003c\/i\u003e. During the notorious mass arrests of writers and activists associated with Autonomy, which began in 1979, Balestrini was charged with membership of an armed organization and with subversive association. He went underground to avoid arrest and fl ed to France. As in so many other cases, no evidence was provided and he was acquitted of all the charges. He currently lives in Rome, where he runs the monthly magazine of cultural intervention \u003ci\u003eAlfabeta2\u003c\/i\u003e with Umberto Eco and others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAntonio Negri\u003c\/b\u003e has taught philosophy and political science at the Universities of Padua and Paris; he has also been a political prisoner in Italy and a political refugee in France. He is the author of over thirty books, including \u003ci\u003ePolitical Descartes, Marx Beyond Marx, The Savage Anomaly, The Politics of Subversion, Insurgencies, Subversive Spinoza,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTime for Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e, and, in collaboration with Michael Hardt, \u003ci\u003eLabor of Dionysus, Empire\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMultitude\u003c\/i\u003e. He currently lives in Paris and Venice.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300293005541,"sku":"NP9781844677672","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781844677672.jpg?v=1767742013","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-unseen-isbn-9781844677672","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}