2009 Fiction Rights List

Agenzia Servizi Editoriali Via Adelaide Bono Cairoli, 37 - 20127 Milan, Italy Tel. +39 0228510504 - 0287393515 [email protected] - www.serv-ed.it 2009 Fiction Rights List Nanni Balestrini Sandokan, Storia di camorra Foreword by Roberto Saviano Derive Approdi 2009 Opere di Nanni Balestrini 144 pages - 13 x 20 cm Retail price: 14,00 euro «When this book by Nanni Balestrini was first published, many among us who live in a somber area, got the feeling that something was finally happening. That something was literature… Rather than a novel about Camorra, or a literary reportage Sandokan is a flow of experiences and reflections, a never-ending trace, a phenomenology of life in the time of Camorra. » Roberto Saviano World rights available, excluding English and German An extraordinary book… The world of Camorra, that seems marginal to us, in this novel becomes a metaphor of greedy hopes that are now mark the whole globe. «Il Corriere della Sera» Years concentrated in a flash. An account that is so realistic to appear as a fiction. A piece of Italy highlighted forever. And, most of all: a collective story. «La Repubblica» Balestrini, whom someone criticizes for his formal extremism, is rather among the few (living) Italian writers – perhaps the one only – that pay attention to what is happening in our country. «La Stampa» With this Sandokan Nanni Balestrini has probably written his best book, re-inventing the genre of literary réportage . «Avvenimenti» In a decayed area near Caserta, a group of young people, in order to escape the miserable life of their peasant fathers, choose to join the crime. Ready for anything, they massacre the rival Camorra bosses and subject all the gangs in that area. So they can control any illicit trade – from contract works to drug traffic, and create an immense international financial empire that is more powerful and richer than Mafia. The flashing and cruel rise comes to an end with a bloody internal war, with mutual extermination and the final arrest of Sandokan, the only survived boss. Witness of such really happened events is a young boy that refused to follow the same way and at the end decides to leave definitely that irremediably wasted land. Nanni Balestrini's work represents one of the major expressions of the Neo-avant-garde movement that swept through Italian literature in the 1960s. Through his writing Balestrini strives to revive language in a world in which he believes the social structure, with its ever increasing alienation of classes and Agenzia Servizi Editoriali Via A. Bono Cairoli 37 – 20127 Milano (Italy) Tel. +39 0228510504 / +39 0287393515 / e-mail: [email protected] / www.serv-ed.it compartmentalization of individual roles, has irremediably destroyed meaningful communication. To counter this trend Balestrini seeks to affirm language as the object of artistic expression. Hence the daring technical experimentations that mark his literary career: from the device of collage to the use of the computer Balestrini aims to create an art product that is new and revolutionary with respect to both its syntax and its affinity with the spoken language. Born in Milan on 2nd July 1935, Balestrini studied engineering at the Università Cattolica in that city. Later he extended his interests by studying economics and political science. He was also reading the Dadaists as well as Guillaume Apollinaire, Berthold Brecht, Ezra Pound, as well as Carlo Emilio Gadda and the writers of the linea lombarda (Lombard line), as Luciano Anceschi had come to define that literary tendency. All his works are now re-published by DeriveApprodi: Rights sold Blackout e altro (2009) French, Spanish I furiosi (2004 e 2007) German. Vogliamo tutto (2004 e 2007) German, French, Spanish Gli invisibili (2005 e 2007) Gernam, French, Spanish, English L’editore (2006) German, French, Spanish Con gli occhi del linguaggio (2006) Milleuna parole per musica (2007) Tristano romanzo multiplo (2007) German , French Agenzia Servizi Editoriali Via A. Bono Cairoli 37 – 20127 Milano (Italy) Tel. +39 0228510504 / +39 0287393515 / e-mail: [email protected] / www.serv-ed.it Nanni Balestrini Blackout e altro DeriveApprodi 2009 pagg. 160 € 13 ISBN 978-88-89969-71-7 Open this book in any page. Read a few lines. You will clash into the violence of its sentences, the same violence that marks our way of life, our society, the history that surrounds us in our everyday experience, from the most trivial fact to great events. First published thirty years ago, Blackout can still be considered as one of the most intense text of Italian contemporary literature. Balestrini's extreme vision of an alienated society offer to readers the sense of an apparently cancelled period during which people seemed to live happy and free. Nanni Balestrini's work represents one of the major expressions of the Neo-avant-garde movement that swept through Italian literature in the 1960s. Through his writing Balestrini strives to revive language in a world in which he believes the social structure, with its ever- increasing alienation of classes and compartmentalization of individual roles, has irremediably destroyed meaningful communication. To counter this trend Balestrini seeks to affirm language as the object of artistic expression. Hence the daring technical experimentations that mark his literary career: from the device of collage to the use of the computer Balestrini aims to create an art product that is new and revolutionary with respect to both its syntax and its affinity with the spoken language. Born in Milan on 2 July 1935, Balestrini enrolled in the school of engineering at the Università Cattolica in that city. Later he broadened his interests by studying economics and political science. He was also reading the Dadaists as well as Guillaume Apollinaire, Bertolt Brecht, Ezra Pound, as well as Carlo Emilio Gadda and the writers of the linea lombarda (Lombard line), as Luciano Anceschi had come to define that literary tendency. Agenzia Servizi Editoriali Via A. Bono Cairoli 37 – 20127 Milano (Italy) Tel. +39 0228510504 / Fax +39 0287393515 / e-mail: [email protected] / www.serv-ed.it Nanni Balestrini GLI INVISIBILI THE INVISIBLE ONES Foreword by Toni Negri DeriveApprodi 2005 288 pages ISBN 88-88738-46-0 14,00 euro English, German, French, Spanish rights sold In the most famous and successful work by Nanni Balestrini - now republished - the focus is on the generation of proletarian young people that started a sort of revolution based on the refuse of work and labour, the occupation of public and private buildings, and “wildcat” strikes: the peak was reached in 1977. The tone is epic to describe a joyful, modern insurrection, in sharp contrast with the violence of the political reaction. On the other hand, being in prison didn’t meant silence and resignation: this part of the book is probably the most touching and impressive, telling about the cruelest jail revolt in Italian history. Anyway, the facts described are moving and involving in general, especially because of their historical nature, but also of the unique style of the narrator: Balestrini’s experimental approach seems to reach his complete maturity in these pages, in particular considering his attention for the possibilities of a collective, non subjective voice. Nanni Balestrini TRISTANO Romanzo multiplo in copia unica (Multiple Novel in Single Copies) DeriveApprodi 2007 pp. 144 euro 15,00 A note by the Author In 1961 I had written Tape Mark I , an experimental poem I composed by using combinatorial possibilities by means of an IBM electronic calculator - the ancient name fo computer. Bits of sentences were assembled in sequence, so to create a series of verses by means of simple algorithms that guided the work of the equipment. There was an infinite number of possible results, but a small series of variants, that was enough to show the sense of the experiment, was published on the Almanacco Bompiani 1962 . Later, I decided to use the same technique to create a novel. When compared to the previous experience, a text in prose had the advantage to have the final product as a tangible object that could be made in a big number of copies in all its different variants. As a result of the different combination of word elements that the computer would have selected time after time. At that time, however, printing technologies did not allow to implement the project, so I was content with publishing only one version with Feltrinelli - an ironic homage to the archetypal love novel. The book arose the interest of critics, due to its experimental and provocative nature, that questioned the notions of character and plot, of time and place. Today, four decades later, the development of digital printing makes it possible to implement my old project, as new machines can print a run of single numbered copies. This operation undermines the dogma of original, unique and final edition of a literary work - the abandoning of mechanical copying systems seems to hint at the uncountable forms in nature, where each element from a leaf to a human being is a slightly different variation of a same ideal prototype. So a literary work or a novel, rather than an unchangeable unicum , can be made as a series of variants each as a tangible book, copy and personal story of each reader. Tristano is just a first test, that still employs in a limited way the potentialities the new technologies can offer to effectively represent and describe the complexity of contemporary world and everyday life. A new way to explore literature and the novel in particular, by offering unexpected chances of creative freedom and communication with readers at large. Luigi Anania e Silverio Novelli (eds.) CONFESSO CHE HO BEVUTO Racconti sul vino e sul piacere del bere Foreword by Luigi Veronelli 240 pages ISBN 88-88738-29-0 13,50 euro This collection of stories, confessions and personal experiences from contemporary Italian authors provides the reader with 28 different interpretations of the word and concept of “wine”.

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