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To Begin Again: Antonio Moresco’s “The Beginnings,” Translated from Italian by Max Lawton
Born in 1948 in Mantova, Antonio Moresco has been a Catholic seminarian, a militant in Italy’s extra-parliamentary left during the Years of Lead and, finally, a writer. Now considered by many Italian readers (but, it must be said, only by a handful of Italian critics, which significantly hindered his recognition at home and abroad) to be one of the most important living Italian writers, he had a troubled publishing history: “The Beginnings” took more than ten years to find a publisher, before coming out for the first time in 1998.
Translation as Teamwork: Anne Milano Appel Interviews Max Lawton and Francesco Pacifico about Antonio Moresco’s “The Beginnings”
Intrigued by the collaboration between Max Lawton and Francesco Pacifico, most recently on the translation of Antonio Moresco’s “Gli Esordi” (The Beginnings, Deep Vellum, 2026), a surreal, experimental novel which is the first book in the author’s “Games of Eternity” trilogy, I decided to ask them about it.