Translator ’s Notes

Though at times adapted or even invented by the author for the purposes of the novel, a great number of the quotations attributed to Gramsci in the text can be found in the following works:

David Forgacs (ed.), The Gramsci Reader. Selected Writings 1916–1935. New York: New York University Press, 2000.

Quintin Hoare and Geoffrey Nowell Smith (trans and eds), Selections from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci. New York: International Publishers, 1971.

Raymond Rosenthal (trans.), Frank Rosengarten (ed.), Letters from Prison. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

 

A translation of Lenin’s address to the Second Communist International can be found here: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1919/-nov/22.htm [last accessed 17 July 2018]

 

More on the circumstances of Gramsci’s burial at the Non-Catholic Cemetery of Rome is available here: http://cemeteryrome.it/press/web-newsletter-eng/no10-2010.pdf [last accessed 17 July 2018]