10 febbraio 2012

1964

(Left): Nathalie Sarraute, Umberto Eco, Aldo Tagliaferri (literary editor in Via Andegari from 1968 to 1989) and Elio Vittorini in Feltrinelli's home.



(Below, left): Rolf Hochhuth. (Center): During a rehearsal of the one and only (clandestine) performance in Italy of Il Vicario, the historical play in which the German author accuses Pope Pius XII of guilty silence about the Nazi extermination of the Jews. An occasion of heated polemics. (Left): James Baldwin and the Publisher at the presentation of Un altro mondo by the American writer.




  

(Right) Hans Magnus Enzensberger (Poesie per chi non legge poesia). (Left): Doris Lessing (Il taccuino d'oro).
Angelo Guglielmi, with Avanguardia e sperimentalismo, and Alberto Arbasino with Certi romanzi, inaugurated a new series, "Materiali", edited by Nanni Balestrini who in 1964 represented the Publishing House in Rome. During the period 1960-1970 the following joined the staff in Milan: Daniela Bacchiega, Giampiera Betti, Simona Manneschi, Marta Nava, Alida Ricci, Assunta Russi and Cristina Tenace.