A unique political coming of age story never before available in English. The Communist is valuable both as a beautiful memoir and important specimen of Italian political history.
G. Morselli (1912-1973) was a novelist and essayist. After serving in the Italian Army, he began writing reportages and short stories while living abroad. All of Morselli's writing was published posthumously after the author committed suicide at the age of sixty. Frederika Randall is a journalist and translator of Italian literature. She lives in Rome. Elizabeth McKenzie is the author of The Portable Veblen and is the senior editor of the Chicago Quarterly Review and the managing editor of Catamaran Literary Reader.
“Rich and engrossing. . . . [Morselli’s] tale of a man whose
certainties are destroyed will resonate with readers of any
political persuasion.” —Publishers Weekly
“Morselli was a man of wide culture and vast reading, a writer of
inexhaustible intellectual curiosity, possessed of a rare
talent to evoke social or historical settings.” —Charles
Fantazzi
"Morselli’s novels...are serious social studies.... The uncanny,
matter-of-fact depictions...give an eerie feeling of something
utterly impossible becoming all-too-plausible.... Why works of such
calibre went unpublished remains a mystery...his works simply
remain there to be appreciated." —Nicola Rossi, complete review
Quarterly
"[Morselli’s] best-laid schemes of mice and monarchs are presided
over by a cool and witty intellect." —Christopher Wordsworth, The
Guardian
"Morselli possessed the pure visionary’s exactness and constructive
ability; each time he chose a subject, he punctiliously documented
himself thereabout...an isolated experimenter.... He could
prophetically interpret history as in Il Comunista or reverse it,
with a good deal of fantastic inventiveness." —Alfredo Giuliani,
Literary Review
"Morselli [was] a master of irony and a deft juggler of tenses."
—Annapaola Cancogni, The New York Times
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