We Want Everything

We Want Everything
Nanni Balestrini
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Trade Paperback
h210 x 140mm - 224pg
12 Apr 2022 UK
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9781784783693
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It was the Autumn of 1969, and Italy exploded. Across the north of the country, factory workers stormed out on strike, demanding better pay and working conditions. The slogan "We Want Everything" rang through the streets. Italy's "Hot Autumn" had begun. In Nanni Balestrini's fictionalized account of the uprising, a young worker from Italy's impoverished south arrives at Fiat's Mirafiori factory in Torino, where he barely scrapes by with fourteen hour days of backbreaking work. His frustration is palpable, and soon he is agitating again his bosses for fun and giving himself minor injuries to win sick leave. Soon enough, he is swept up by a snowballing worker movement that leads to months of continuous strikes at Mirafiori. Eventually, the conflict bubbles out of the factory. The growing pressure having produced an inevitable crack, the streets are lined with barricades, and tear gas wafts into private homes.
"A fine example of a literary use of expressions that were then burgeoning in factories and mass meetings, caught between student unrest and worker fury." Umberto Eco "Only Balestrini ... has succeeded in reconciling the tragic-epic spirit of the revolutionary movement and the ironic-combinatorial spirit of literary experimentation ... [We Want Everything] is probably the most important Italian literary work of the 1960s." - Franco 'Bifo' Berardi
Nanni Balestrini was born in Milan in 1935 and was a member of the influential avant-garde Gruppo 63, along with Umberto Eco. He is the author of numerous volumes of poetry and novels including Tristano and The Unseen.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781784783693
Published: 12 Apr 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Verso Books
Publisher: Verso Books
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 210mm
Width: 140mm
Pages: 224

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