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From Bolaño's library · writer
Antonio Gramsci
Italy
- Where in Bolaño
- Not verified in Bolaño's work; the plausible habitats are the clandestine Marxism tutorials Urrutia Lacroix gives Pinochet and the junta in By Night in Chile, and the roster of philosophers' names in Amalfitano's hanging-diagrams in 2666
- Why read them
- Sardinian communist (1891–1937) who wrote his best pages in Mussolini's prisons, where the state kept his brain from working for twenty years and failed; the theorist of hegemony and of the intellectual's usefulness to power — the exact disease By Night in Chile diagnoses without naming it.
