1976

Announcement of the Nobel Prize for literature award to Saul Bellow (left), many of whose books had been translated by Feltrinelli.




(Below): Announcement of Gli americani in Italia by Roberto Faenza e Marco Fini, based on US archive documents. Tomas Maldonado published Disegno industriale: un riesame. Announcement of Storia sociale della fotografia by Ando Gilardi.




Tiziano Terzani (right) gives an eye-witness account in Giai Phong! La liberazione di Saigon. The Paraguayan writer, Augusto Roa Bastos published Figlio di uomo, a novel about the Chaco war in the thirties, in which he had taken part in his youth. His novel, Io il supremo, centred on a nineteenth century dictator, prototype of Latin-American dictatorship, was to be published in 1978. One important new author this year was Bruno Bettelheim with Psichiatria non oppressiva; another was Luisa Muraro with La signora del gioco. I bambini e la TV reports the first research on children's television. In Fascismo e "città nuove" Riccardo Mariani describes urban development between the two wars. 

Massimo Cacciari, author of Krisis. Saggio sulla crisi del pensiero negativo da Nietzsche a Wittgenstein.




A new Feltrinelli Bookshop was opened in Via Vittorio Emanuele Orlando. Grazia Cassarà joined the staff as science editor.
(Left) A solidarity poster concerning the unsuccessful bomb attack against the Feltrinelli Bookshop in Via del Babuino, Rome, in November 1976.