Franco Merelli writes to me:
“With power, the battles are always lost. The point is to lose them better. And to fight them. To fight them knowing that, reasonably, one loses. Losing joyfully is a victory. And the next time, one will lose less. This is what makes the rules of power implode”. Luciano Bianciardi1
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Luciano Bianciardi (1922–1971) was an Italian journalist, translator and writer. A key figure of Italian culture in the 1950s and ’60s, he is known for his works Il lavoro culturale, L’integrazione and La vita agra. He worked with various publishers and translated authors such as Henry Miller, William Faulkner and John Steinbeck. La vita agra appeared in English as It’s a Hard Life (trans. Eric Mosbacher, Hodder & Stoughton / Viking, 1965). ⤶