The Writer and the People

Both a historical text and a living document, The Writer and the People will help to educate and inspire left-wing activists today. This classic work—the only monograph to have emerged from the original workerist tradition—reconstructs the relations between literary production and the image of the ‘people’. The issues it confronts are some of those most central to postwar Italian history as well as to forms of populism that have had such a spectacular resurgence in recent years. Alberto Aso...