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In these three short books—Servabo: A Fin De Siècle Memoir, Miss Kirchgessner, and The Medlar Tree, collected in one volume in English for the first time—Luigi Pintor retraces a life marked, often in spite of itself, by politics. At once intransigent and ironic, these autobiographical texts are written “to reorder in the imagination things that don’t add up in reality.” From the idyll of his Sardinian childhood to the transformative experience of the anti-Fascist resistance, and from post-war militancy to the dismal regression of Italian culture, Pintor captures memories that are intensely personal and inseparable from political and intellectual experience. Episodes and observations recur across all three books, but the tropes of autobiography are insistently displaced. Sparse and evocative prose, borrowing from the aphorism and fable, struggles to give form to personal and political despair, while Pintor never relents on the attachments and convictions that shape a life.

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"""His sense of humour, the clarity of his writing and his polemical vigour set Pintor apart from others."" -Guardian"""

His sense of humour, the clarity of his writing and his polemical vigour set Pintor apart from others. -Guardian

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Luigi Pintor (1925-2003) was cofounder of the independent communist newspaper Il manifesto and one of Italy's foremost political journalists. Gregory Elliot is an independent translator and writer whose most recent translation is Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello's The New Spirit of Capitalism.

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