Prison Notebooks (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Antonio Gramsci
- First Published: 1948
- Type of Work: Notebooks
- Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy, Diary
- Subjects: Culture, Philosophy or philosophers, Communism or communists, Politics, Prisoners, Socialism, Letters, Thought or thinking
Form and Content
On November 8, 1926, Antonio Gramsci, the Italian Marxist and fierce antibourgeois, anti-Fascist journalist and deputy, was arrested by Benito Mussolini’s police and deported to the tiny island of Ustica. His sentence was twenty years. Until his release from incarceration on April 21, 1937, six days before his death, he was variously confined at Turi near Bari, at Formia, and at Milan, until his return to his native Sardinia. A small man physically, with a deformity that gave him the appearance of a humpbacked dwarf, he suffered from tuberculosis and...
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