No. 1 Scapegoat
John Foot: Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, 7 February 2002
Senior Service
by Carlo Feltrinelli, translated by Alastair McEwen.
Granta, 464 pp., £20, November 2001,1 86207 456 9 Show More
by Carlo Feltrinelli, translated by Alastair McEwen.
Granta, 464 pp., £20, November 2001,
“... A bearded man lies flat on his back, arms wide apart, in a field. He has one leg. Nearby, some wires hang from the base of an electricity pylon, to which a box seems to be attached. The man is Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, 46 years old, a political militant, publisher and millionaire. The photo was taken on 15 March 1972. For more than two years Feltrinelli had been on the run from the Italian authorities ... ”
