1996

Some of the best sellers in fiction, both Italian and foreign, were published ths year: Stefano Benni's new book Elianto, and Noi che ci vogliamo così bene by the chilean Marcela Serrano (left). Then there was Male d'amore by the Mexican writer Angeles Mastretta and Il campo di nessuno by Daniel Picouly, presented in Italy by the already well-known Daniel Pennac. Pennac himself won the International Flaiano Award with his novel Malaussène (1995). Douglas Coupland, one of the most interesting contemporary American writers, made his first appearance in Feltrinelli's fiction with Microservi and the Chilean Alejandro Jodorowsky (right), well-known for his visionary films, was another newcomer with Quando Teresa si arrabbiò con Dio.

Il vizio della memoria by Gherardo Colombo, one of the "Mani Pulite" ("clean hands") magistrates; "a book that is both public and private...  an analysis and a confession" (C. Stajano).

This year marked the centenary of the birth of Tomasi di Lampedusa, and the event was duly remembered. Il Gattopardo ran to 165 editions in Italy alone and 60 abroad.

Publication of "Papers" from the Foucault Archives began in the series Campi del Sapere/Filosofia: these included a vast selection of hitherto unpublished documents arranged in 3 volumes, the last of which were to come out in 1998. In the same series, but in the section Critica, Il giudizio del poeta, by the American philosopher Martha Nussbaum appeared. She took an active part in the public life of her country and was well-known on the international field. In the section "Filosofia", Lucio Rosso, the mathematician, had his work La rivoluzione dimenticata published; it dealt with the relationships between the Greek scientific school of thought and modern science. In the series Interzone the following were published: L'intelligenza collettiva. Per un'antropologia del cyberspazio by Pierre Lévy and Contro il capitale by Jeremy Brecher and Tim Costello. The latter was the first text ever published in Italy on the newborn "no-global movement".