(ANSA) - ROME, OCTOBER 10 - Posthumous libo, in continuous evolution, 'Letters from prison' by Antonio Gramsci comes out on October 13 in IMillenni Einaudi, in a new edition, edited by FrancescoGiasi, with 511 letters, of which 12 unpublished and a rich photographic album.
The first edition of 1947, edited by Palmiro Togliatti and Felice Platone, had 218 letters to which in the various editions of the work, including those edited by Sergio Caprioglio and Elsa Fubini and Paolo Spriano, more were added gradually.
As Giasi explains in the introduction, the story of this book begins the day after the death of its author, which took place in Rom on April 27, 1937. It is a family correspondence, most of the letters written by Gramsci are addressed to his mother, his brother Carlo, sisters, his wife, sister-in-law Tatania Schucht and their two children.
In the 1367 pages of this edition, "the very personal story of a thought disputed between logic of apparatus, freedom of vision, pain and tenacity of commitment" emerges even more clearly, as Ernesto Franco explains in the presentation note.
The letters "run parallel to the drafting of the 'Quaderni del carcere', which in turn represent one of the highlights of Italian essayist thought of the twentieth century, translated estudious throughout the world. They constitute the existential parallel and, perhaps, the premise and the condition. all its editions, thanks to or despite its editors, 'Letters from the prison' has always appeared to its reader not as a book-archive, but as a complete and autonomous work, because it is a self-portrait of a living thought in its becoming, in its unfolding , but also in its radical novelty ".
Last but not least, explains Ernesto Franco, 'Letters from the prison' "is a founding book of the Einaudi publishing house.
Promoter in 1921, with Amadeo Bordiga, of the split of the Socialist Party and the foundation of the Communist Party of Italy, Gramsci founded the newspaper in 1924" l'Unità "and in the same year he was elected deputy in Parliament. In 1926 he was arrested, in violation of parliamentary immunity, by the fascist police and tried for conspiracy and incitement to civil war. And in 1928 he was sentenced for twenty years. (ANSA).