1965

  

In 1962 Feltrinelli had already published Lettere cubane by Wright Mills. In 1964 he met Fidel Castro in Havana to discuss a book of memoirs to be written by the Cuban leader. (right): Discussing the book Feltrinelli and Castro are sitting at a table with Valerio Riva, who was to assist Castro in the writing of his memoirs, a project abandoned by the author a few years later.. 

Goffredo Parise, whose novel Il padrone and a further edition of Il ragazzo morto e le comete were published in 1965.






     

A "happening" in the Feltrinelli Bookshop on Rome, and (right): a jukebox installed in a space in the bookshop, which was directed by Carlo Conticelli.This year the Publishing House celebrated its first ten years of activity.

Among the new authors this time figured Boris Pilnjāk, Violette Leduc, Ernesto Sabato and Kyle Onstott.