1959

(Left) Giovanni Testori (La Gilda del Mac Mahon) with Franca Valeri, and Ernesto De Martino (Sud e magia).
This year witnessed intense publishing activity (84 titles) and the Publishing House opened its doors to other important authors, particularly writers of fiction: Alberto Arbasino, Saul Bellow, Theodor W. Adorno, Karen Blixen, Kazimierz Brandys, Jorge Luis Borges, Rudolph Arnheim, Osamu Dazai, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Edward M. Forster, Max Frisch, Doris Lessing, Renzo Rosso, Bertrand Russell, Nathalie Sarraute. Among the new series figured: "Le Comete".



(Above) Alfred Hitchcock with the Publisher in Milan, in 1960.The famous film director was presenting a series of collected horror stories: the first came out in 1959 (25 racconti del terrore vietati alla TV).

(Below) Karen Blixen (La mia Africa). Max Frisch, between Enzo Siciliano and the Publisher. His novel Homo Faber was published in 1959.