{"product_id":"the-beginnings-antonio-moresco-paperback","title":"The Beginnings -- Antonio Moresco, Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe first book in Antonio Moresco's colossally disruptive \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eGames of Eternity\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e (\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eGiochi dell'eternità) \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003etrilogy, translated into English for the first time.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eUpon its publication in Italy, \u003cem\u003eThe Beginnings\u003c\/em\u003e was exactly that: the dawning of a new era. Like a photo-negative of Franz Kafka, or Virginia Woolf, Moresco's sweeping novel turns the stream-of-consciousness inside out, and offers nothing interior. Here, much like in real life, you will not be privy to the thoughts and feelings of others. Everything must be experienced as it happens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom our narrator's undergraduate years in seminary school, to his activities as a member of various Italian political factions, to his attempts to become a writer, \u003cem\u003eThe Beginnings\u003c\/em\u003e is a shapeshifting journey across the 20th century, and across all of literature itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Antonio Moresco\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Deep Vellum Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/24\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 500\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781646053957\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAntonio Moresco\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Mantua and lives in Milan. Considered one of the founders of modern Italian literature, \u003cem\u003eThe Beginnings\u003c\/em\u003e is his second book to be published by Deep Vellum, after \u003cem\u003eClandestinity\u003c\/em\u003e, a collection of short stories. He has gone on to publish several more books, among them the short novel \u003cem\u003eLa cipolla\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eThe Onion\u003c\/em\u003e), the autobiographical \u003cem\u003eLettere a nessuno\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eLetters to No One\u003c\/em\u003e), and \u003cem\u003eDistant Light, \u003c\/em\u003ewhich was published by Archipelago in 2013.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMax Lawton\u003c\/b\u003e is a translator, novelist, and musician. He received his BA in Russian Literature and Culture from Columbia University and his MPhil from Queen's College, Oxford, where he wrote a dissertation comparing Céline and Dostoevsky. He has translated many books by Vladimir Sorokin. Max is also the author of two novels currently awaiting publication and is writing his doctoral dissertation on phenomenology and the twentieth-century novel at Columbia University, where he also teaches Russian. He is a member of four noise-music ensembles.","brand":"Antonio Moresco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68062176805092,"sku":"9781646053957","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9781646053957.jpg?v=1793519967","url":"https:\/\/bookandmortar.com\/products\/the-beginnings-antonio-moresco-paperback","provider":"BookandMortar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}