New York. 1994. Columbia University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in

New York. 1994. Columbia University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket With A Small Tear On The Top Back Cover and Some Slight Water-Staining At the Inside Bottom Sprine. 0231075529. Translated from the Italian by Raymond Rosenthal. Edited by Frank Rosengarten. 374 pages. hardcover. Jacket Illustation by Richard Erickson. keywords: Biography. FROM THE PUBLISHER-A founding leader of the Italian Communist Party and member of the Italian Parliament, Antonio Gramsci is generally considered the most original political thinker in the tradition of Western Marxism. This, the only complete and authoritative edition of Gramsci's prison letters, provides a penetrating look into his intellectual and spiritual life during his ordeal as a political prisoner in Fascist Italy from 1926 to 1937. Written to family and friends-especially to his wife, Giulia Schucht and his sister-in-law, Tania-these strikingly vivid letters illuminate Gramsci's ideas on politics, philosophy, history, literature, folklore, and education. They reveal as well the life experiences that contributed to the formation of these ideas. This first volume contains letters written between 1926 and 1930 and an introduction that reveals Gramsci's political and personal fortunes before his imprisonment, the circumstances surrounding his arrest and trial, and Tania Schucht's pivotal role in Gramsci's life as a prisoner. Over half the letters are addressed to Tania, who acted as liaison with his family in Sardinia as well as the Schucht family in Russia. Tania also facilitated correspondence between Gramsci and his close friend, Piero Sraffa, a prominent and wealthy Italian economist, who in turn became Gramsci's link with Italian Communist Party leaders in exile. Subtle, humorous, and profound, LETTERS FROM PRISON reveals the work of a man for whom political, moral, and personal commitment were one and the same human enterprise. inventory #22831.