Volume 50, Number 14 · September 25, 2003
Radical and Rich
By Adrian Lyttelton
Feltrinelli
by Carlo Feltrinelli, translated from the Italian by Alastair McEwan
Harcourt, 344 pp., $30.00
Thirty years after his death, the Italian publisher Giangiacomo Feltrinelli remains an enigma. In some ways, the sensitive, detailed biography written by his son makes the enigma appear still more perplexing. The Feltrinelli who is most securely embedded in the collective memory is the would-be revolutionary and terrorist, a figure both tragic and absurd, who blew himself up while trying to destroy an electricity pylon in a Milan suburb. Even if he had succeeded, a temporary interruption in Milan's electricity supply hardly seems like a very convincing demonstration of revolutionary ideals.
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