Antonio Gramsci

There are approximately 200 letters, including some newly found and published for the first time in this volume. The collection begins with the letters that the young Gramsci sent back to his family when he was a student in Cagliari and ends with the last letter he wrote before his arrest in 1926.

Le Favole di libert contengono le traduzioni che Antonio Gramsci, per perfezionare il suo tedesco, fece per i figli delle fiabe dei fratelli Grimm. Il libro contiene anche gli Apologhi e Raccontini torinesi e i Raccontini di Ghilarza e del carcere I testi furono scritti da Gramsci mentre si trovava in carcere sotto il regime fascita.

One of the world's most influential cultural critics, Antonio Gramsci's writings on the interconnection between culture and politics fundamentally changed the way that scholars view both. Among the first to argue that art is not the product of "men of genius" but rather particular historical and social contexts, Gramsci remains one of the most widely read theorists of modern culture. Antonio Gramsci was a founding member of the Italian Communist Party and spent most of his adult life imprisoned by Benito Mussolini. After his death and the subsequent publication of his Prison Notebooks, he came to be known as one of the twentieth century's foremost cultural critics.