Título: The Communist (NYRB Classics)
Autor: Guido Morselli
Sinopse: A unique political coming of age story, now in English for the first time Walter Ferranini has been born and bred a man of the left. His father was a worker and an anarchist; Walter himself is a Communist. In the 1930s, he left Mussolini’s Italy to fight Franco in Spain. After Franco’s victory, he left Spain for exile in the United States. With the end of the war, he returned to Italy to work as a labor organizer and to build a new revolutionary order. Now, in the late 1950s, Walter is a deputy in the Italian parliament. He is not happy about it. Parliamentary proceedings are too boring for words: the Communist Party seems to be filling up with ward heelers, timeservers, and profiteers. For Walter, the political has always taken precedence over the personal, but now there seems to be no refuge for him anywhere. The puritanical party disapproves of his relationship with Nuccia, a tender, quizzical, deeply intelligent editor who is separated but not divorced, while Walter is worried about his health, haunted by his past, and increasingly troubled by knotty questions of both theory and practice. Walter is, always has been, and always will be a Communist, he has no doubt about that, and yet something has changed. Communism no longer explains the life he is living, the future he hoped for, or, perhaps most troubling of all, the life he has led.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “The Communist (NYRB Classics)”, de Guido Morselli, publicado pela editora NYRB, em 2017 e com 352 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: NYRB
Páginas: 352
Ano: 2017
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Linguagem: pt_BR
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ISBN13: 9781681370781
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora NYRB costumam oferecer uma experiência de leitura marcada por narrativas densas e envolventes, que transitam entre o íntimo e o histórico. As sinopses indicam uma predileção por personagens complexos e ambientes ricos em detalhes, como famílias em crise, cenários de guerra e contextos sociais tensos. A linguagem varia do lírico e reflexivo ao irônico e sombrio, com obras que exploram desde memórias fragmentadas até distopias e relatos autobiográficos. O catálogo apresenta tanto ficção literária com forte carga psicológica quanto textos que dialogam com a história e a política, sempre com um tom que mescla erudição e acessibilidade.
