رسائل السجن : رسائل أنطونيو غرامشي إلى أمه

by Antonio Gramsci, سعيد بوكرامي (ترجمة)

"Credi che la corrispondenza mi preme molto: è il solo legame che mi unisce al mondo ed è ciò che rompe di tanto in tanto la mia segregazione e il mio isolamento" scriveva Antonio Gramsci (Ales, 1891 – Roma, 1937) alla cognata Tania nel maggio 1927 dal carcere. Gramsci era stato condannato a 20 anni nel 1926 per ordine del regime fascista. Durante la prigionia scrisse numerose lettere ad amici e familiari, fin quando gli fu concessa la piena libertà il 21 aprile 1937, per gravi problemi di salute che lo portarono alla morte una settimana più tardi. Questa raccolta comprende le lettere scritte tra il 1926 e il 1936, le quali offrono uno sguardo sul mondo intellettuale e privato di un personaggio chiave della storia italiana, tra aneddoti quotidiani e riflessioni morali, tra piccole gioie, come una rosa che fiorisce o un passerottino che si fa imboccare di briciole, e grandi dolori, come la malattia, l'isolamento o le incomprensioni e i rimproveri a coloro da cui Gramsci si sente sempre più abbandonato.

Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy, Politics, History, Biography, Italian Literature, Italy

101 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1947

About the author

Antonio Francesco Gramsci was an Italian Marxist philosopher, linguist, journalist, writer, and politician. He wrote on philosophy, political theory, sociology, history, and linguistics. He was a founding member and one-time leader of the Italian Communist Party. A vocal critic of Benito Mussolini and fascism, he was imprisoned in 1926, where he remained until his death in 1937.

During his imprisonment, Gramsci wrote more than 30 notebooks and 3,000 pages of history and analysis. His Prison Notebooks are considered a highly original contribution to 20th-century political theory. Gramsci drew insights from varying sources — not only other Marxists but also thinkers such as Niccolò Machiavelli, Vilfredo Pareto, Georges Sorel, and Benedetto Croce. The notebooks cover a wide range of topics, including the history of Italy and Italian nationalism, the French Revolution, fascism, Taylorism and Fordism, civil society, the state, historical materialism, folklore, religion, and high and popular culture.
Gramsci is best known for his theory of cultural hegemony, which describes how the state and ruling capitalist class — the bourgeoisie — use cultural institutions to maintain wealth and power in capitalist societies. In Gramsci's view, the bourgeoisie develops a hegemonic culture using ideology rather than violence, economic force, or coercion. He also attempted to break from the economic determinism of orthodox Marxist thought, and so is sometimes described as a neo-Marxist. He held a humanistic understanding of Marxism, seeing it as a philosophy of praxis and an absolute historicism that transcends traditional materialism and traditional idealism.

Reviews

[Abel Estiarte]

Un Gramsci profundament personal que escriu a les persones que més estima (principalment, els seus fills). No vinguis a aquest llibre a buscar política, vine per veure com un home apartat de casa s'abraça a la correspondència per seguir vivint.