1962

Only in 1961, after years and years of bans, trials and diatribes was the
publication of Henry Miller's most famous novels, Tropico del Cancro
and Tropico del Capricorno possible in the States. But as it was still
impossible in Italy, Luciano Bianciardi's translation, commissioned by
Feltrinelli, was printed in France, distributed abroad and sold under the
counter in Italy. It was only after a succession of seizures and subsequent
releases that, in 1967, the book was on sale in Italy. In the picture, the
American writer with Giangiacomo Feltrinelli at Gargnano(in the first photo
with the publisher Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt). The works of the Spanish
poet, Miguel Hernandez and those of the Soviet Evgenij Evtusenko were
published in the series "Poesia".

Lungo viaggio attraverso il fascismo by Ruggero Zangrandi (top, left)
was published in 1962. This book marked a change in the way of considering
Italy's Fascist past. (Top, centre) The theologian Karl Barth, author of Epistola
ai Romani. (Center, below)"Enciclopedia
Feltrinelli Fischer" (37 volumes), a highly popular and reasonably priced
work. The first two volumes were published in 1962. (Right) Marguerite
Yourcenar (Il colpo di grazia).

The two books of the year, however, were La morte di Virgilio by
Hermann Broch (left) and Il tamburo di latta by Günter Grass (center).
(Right) the Publisher with Paolo Rossi (I filosofi e
le macchine) who, from 1970 was to act as co-editor of the series
"Storia della scienza" with Libero Sosio.
|