Inventions of a Present keyword-organization Nanni Balestrini

Nanni Balestrini

and his critique of Sartre

With an extensive introduction by Adam Hochschild

Thomas Hirschhorn

Inventions of a Present keyword-organization Nanni BalestriniA novel is an act, an intervention, which, most often, the nave reader takes as a representation. The novel intervenes to modify or correct our conventional notions of a situation and, in the best and most intense cases, to propose a wholly new idea of what constitutes an event or of the very experience of living. The most interesting contemporary novels are those which tryand sometimes manageto awaken our sense of a collectivity behind individual