Feltrinelli
by Carlo Feltrinelli
"On a spring evening in 1972, a man climbed up an electricity tower outside Milan, intending to place a bomb. He fell to his death. Notices in the next day's newspapers announced the botched action of an unnamed "terrorist." It quickly became clear, however, that this "terrorist" was one of the most famous men in Europe.".
"Born into a wealthy and distinguished family, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli fought with the partisans against the Nazis, joined the Communist Party, then took over the family's financial empire after the war. In 1954 he founded the house that bears the family name, and went on to publish the likes of Pasternak, Kerouac, Bellow, and Che Guevara. In the sixties he supported revolutionary movements in Europe and the Americas, and befriended Fidel Castro. But in spite of his leftist sympathies.
Feltrinelli wasn't proletarian enough to give up his yachts, sports cars, and the lavish estates in which he entertained the best and brightest of a generation."--BOOK JACKET.
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Senior Service: Das Leben meines Vaters Giangiacomo Feltrinelli
2003-07-01, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag
Paperback
in German
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Senior Service: Biografia De Un Editor
January 2002, TusQuets
Paperback
in Spanish
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Feltrinelli: A Story of Riches, Revolution, and Violent Death
November 11, 2002, Harcourt
in English
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Senior Service: A Story of Riches, Revolution and Violent Death
2002-11, Granta Books
paperback
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Senior Service: A Story of Riches, Revolution and Violent Death
2001, Granta Books
Hardcover
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Senior Service. Das Leben meines Vaters.
August 1, 2001, Carl Hanser Verlag
Hardcover
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Giangiacomo Feltrinelli was one of the most arresting and characterful international publishers of his generation, yet he died violently, as a member of an ultra-left group attempting to blow up an electricity pylon. Born into enormous wealth, he found himself equally attracted to great books and workers’ rights. Feltrinelli sponsored two great post-war novels – Boris Pasternak’s Dr Zhivago and The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa. He also published Saul Bellow, Che Guevara, Borges, Doris Lessing and Jack Kerouac in Italy. Despite the attentions of the KGB, Pasternak smuggled his manuscript out of the USSR to Feltrinelli, who then saw to it the the book was published worldwide, and the passionate editor’s intricate, censor-duping correspondence with the besieged writer is relayed in this memoir, in which Feltrinelli’s son Carlo looks back over his father’s life.
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