The Education of a Reluctant Radical

The Open Marxism of ANTONIO GRAMSCI translated and annotated by CARL MARZANI CAMERON ASSOCIATES, INC. · NEW YORK · 1957

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THE PAGE IMAGE WAS READ, not only the text layer. Printed page 67 of Book 3, in the chapter 'Meeting Marx', carries a facsimile of the booklet's own title page inside a ruled box: 'The Open Marxism / of / ANTONIO GRAMSCI / translated and annotated / by / CARL MARZANI', and beneath a small printer's device, 'CAMERON ASSOCIATES, INC. - NEW YORK - 1957'. The scan's text layer renders that device as a pound sign and the two centred dots as a guillemet and a plus sign; the device is dropped and the dots restored from the image, and nothing else in the quoted span is altered. The sentence around the facsimile begins on page 66, 'My small book, The Open Marxism of', and resumes below the box, 'Antonio Gramsci (New York, Cameron Associates, 1957), introduced him to the American public'; the running head 'MEETING MARX 67' is removed and the line-break hyphen in 'introduced' closed up. The same page is in the corpus at work:w679ab9a1d009fd1a, offset 135172, which is Book 3 of this memoir. THE DATE IS THE POINT: this title page reads 1957, and so does Marzani's own sentence around it, while John Cammett's essay in this same volume cites the booklet as '(New York: Cameron Associates, 1958)' in its second note. Secondary accounts give 1957, 1958 and 1959. The reproduced title page is the document and it says 1957.

Really the only substantial publication before 1960 by an American was Carl Marzani’s sixty-four-page annotated translation of passages from the Prison Notebooks.

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Read in the copy on the shelf, printed page 271, the opening of Cammett's essay in the appendix to Book 3. The same text is in the corpus at work:w679ab9a1d009fd1a, offset 517814, character for character including the line-break hyphen in 'translation', which is closed up here. THIS IS CAMMETT, NOT MARZANI, and it is the only place the archive can read the booklet's extent: sixty-four pages. It is a scholar's essay printed in the memoir, so this element of the claim is one step removed even though it stands in a primary source; the booklet itself is not in the corpus and has no copy on the shelf. Cammett's own second note to this essay cites the booklet as '(New York: Cameron Associates, 1958)', which the reproduced title page on page 67 of the same volume contradicts. A footnote marker follows 'Prison Notebooks.' on the page and falls outside the quoted span.