{"title": "Senior Service", "covers": [3199378, 3190675, 112185, 4539983, 9039674], "key": "/works/OL5952878W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL1476383A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subject_places": ["Italy"], "subjects": ["Biography", "Feltrinelli editore", "History", "Intellectual life", "Political activists", "Politics and government", "Publishers and publishing", "Radicalism", "Italy, politics and government", "Italy, intellectual life", "Revolutionaries"], "subject_people": ["Giangiacomo Feltrinelli (1926-1972)"], "subject_times": ["1945-1976", "20th century"], "links": [{"title": "inventaire.io", "url": "https://inventaire.io/entity/wd:Q115059373", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "VIAF: 6532159764090608170004", "url": "https://viaf.org/viaf/6532159764090608170004/", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "description": "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\u2019 rights. Feltrinelli sponsored two great post-war novels \u2013 Boris Pasternak\u2019s 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\u2019s intricate, censor-duping correspondence with the besieged writer is relayed in this memoir, in which Feltrinelli\u2019s son Carlo looks back over his father\u2019s life.\r\n\r\n(Source: [Granta](https://granta.com/contributor/carlo-feltrinelli/))", "identifiers": {"wikidata": ["Q115059373"], "bookbrainz": ["a3f98849-4173-432a-a8fc-9c4cecb2707f"], "librarything": ["5584335"], "goodreads": ["14596596"]}, "latest_revision": 9, "revision": 9, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T18:14:48.967875"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-07-05T10:38:50.190724"}}