Review: To Live Is to Resist; The Life of Antonio Gramsci by Jean-Yves Frétigné
French historian Jean-Yves Frétigné’s biography of Antonio Gramsci, Vivre, c’est resister was published in 2017 in the 50th anniversary year of John M Cammett’s seminal work, Antonio Gramsci and the Origins of Italian Communism. Cammett was the father of Gramsci studies outside Italy. To Live Is to Resist: The Life of Antonio Gramsci is the book’s English version translated by Laura Marris. This latest biography opens a new window on Gramsci studies, which had already become a PhD industry by the mid-1970s. With an…