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La dismissione
“The Dismantling” (title translated by AI)
Ermanno Rea (born 1927)
English editions
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Vincenzo Buonocore entered the Ilva steelworks at Bagnoli, in Naples, as a simple labourer and rose to become a specialized technician. Now his own department has been sold to Chinese buyers, and he is put in charge of dismantling it before they arrive to carry the factory away piece by piece. He resolves to do it 'bolt by bolt', with obsessive precision, but laying his hands on those machines forces him to relive episodes of his life and to meet again the faces and names of those who shared his love for the steelworks. His detailed account, gathered by the narrator, becomes the story of a man who cannot separate his fate from that of his factory, and of working-class Naples.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 373 pages in the original
- Genres
- Politics (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Italy
- First published
- 2002 by Rizzoli
- Author's age
- 75 when first published
- ISBN
9788817869577 (original)