Nous Voulons Tout

Vogliamo tutto: we want everything—the novel of Italy's "Hot Autumn"! Vogliamo tutto focuses on the "hot autumn of 1969" that started with a big strike at Fiat, Turin, and sparked nearly 10 years of radical action in Italy. It's a story of emigration, the revolt against work and the birth of political consciousness from the point of view of a young southern Italian. Balestrini documents experiences on the factory floor, in the meetings and demonstrations and at the barricades to create a poetic remix of a novel, a call to arms for a just society.This book is the first English translation of this important work. Told in the first person, the story is based on interviews with one particular worker, flyers from the movement and transcripts of rallies and assemblies during the strike.

"Only Balestrini ... has succeeded in reconciling the tragic-epic spirit of the revolutionary movement and the ironic-combinatorial spirit of literary experimentation ... Vogliamo tutto is probably the most important Italian literary work of the 1960s."

—Franco Berardi (Bifo).