Pushing Past the Night: Coming to Terms With Italy's Terrorist Past
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| Rating | : | 4.89 (506 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B005OHUW48 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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Five Stars Fabulously thoughtful memoir.
Better as a long article than as a book, Mario's repetitious writing offers more insights into the various Italian political factions of the past thirty years than it does into his own heart. Several political factions-foremost Lotta Continua-loudly and violently protested the government's response to the bombing, blaming Police Commissioner Luigi Calabresi for Pinelli's death. All rights reserved. Calabresi's assassination was the result of political speculation surrounding the aftermath of Milan's 1969 domestic-terrorist attack known as the Fontana Square Massacre, when three days later one of the suspects, Giuseppe Pinelli, fell to his death from a fourth-floor office window belonging to Luigi Calabresi. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. From Publishers Weekly On May 17, 1972, at the height of Italy's decade-long political turmoil known as the Years of Lead
Calabresi left behind his pregnant wife and two young sons.In this memoir, Mario Calabresi explores the personal and political fallout of Italy's era of domestic terrorism in a poignant and very personal account. As Mario Calabresi's mother always told him, you have to look to the future, stake your bets on life, and refuse to be a prisoner of hatred.. This powerful book calls not only for accountability but also for redemption. This didn't stop the rumors that Pinelli had been killed by Calabresi. These suspicions kicked off "a ferocious lynching, albeit in slow motion"—as the Italian paper La Repubblica characterized it—that culminated in the murder of Luigi Calabresi outside his home one morning in 1972. December 15, 1969, was the most important day of Mario Calabresi's life, although he would not be born for another year. On that date, the anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli fell to
MooreMichael F. He has served as managing editor of the Italian daily La Repubblica and currently works as their New York correspondent.Michael F. Mooreis the translator of the novels Three Horses (Other Press, 2005) and God’s Mountain by Erri De Luca, The Silence of the Body by Guido Ceronetti, the poetry of Alfredo Giuliani, and essays by Pier Paolo Pasolini. . He is currently working on a new translation of the classic