{"product_id":"the-beginnings-9781646053957","title":"The Beginnings","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first book in Antonio Moresco's colossally disruptive Games of Eternity (Giochi dell’eternità) trilogy, translated into English for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first book in Antonio Moresco's colossally disruptive \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGames of Eternity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e (\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGiochi dell’eternità\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e) trilogy, translated into English for the first time.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUpon its publication in Italy, \u003ci\u003eThe Beginnings \u003c\/i\u003ewas exactly that: the dawning of a new era. Like a photo-negative of Franz Kafka, or Virginia Woolf, Moresco’s sweeping novel turns the stream-of-consciousness inside out, and offers nothing interior. Here, much like in real life, you will not be privy to the thoughts and feelings of others. Everything must be experienced as it happens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom our narrator’s undergraduate years in seminary school, to his activities as a member of various Italian political factions, to his attempts to become a writer, \u003ci\u003eThe Beginnings \u003c\/i\u003eis a shapeshifting journey across the 20th century, and across all of literature itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eDetails\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN13: 9781646053957\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNumber of Pages: 500\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdition: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication Date: 01 Aug 2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: Deep Vellum Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication City, Country: Texas, United States\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions (cm): 22.8(H)x15.2(L)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeight (gm): \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eAntonio Moresco was born in Mantua and lives in Milan. Considered one of the founders of modern Italian literature, The Beginnings is his second book to be published by Deep Vellum, after Clandestinity, a collection of short stories. He has gone on to publish several more books, among them the short novel La cipolla (The Onion), the autobiographical Lettere a nessuno (Letters to No One), and Distant Light, which was published by Archipelago in 2013.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMax Lawton\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e is a writer, musician, and translator. He is currently working in close collaboration with Vladimir Sorokin to publish all of his untranslated works in English. His translation of Michael Lentz's \u003ci\u003eSchattenfroh\u003c\/i\u003e was one of the most anticipated English-language titles of 2025. Max is also currently working on or has plans to translate works by Antonio Moresco, Stefano D’Arrigo, Alberto Laiseca, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Eduard Limonov, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Hans Henny Jahnn, and Miquel de Palol. His first novel \u003ci\u003eProgress\u003c\/i\u003e is coming out with Verso in 2027. His translations have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003en+1\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper’s\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Baffler\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe White Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eJoyland\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Los Angeles, where, when he isn’t writing, he plays heavy metal and noise music.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eReviews\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A towering absurdist work.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Publisher's Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“A hypnotic and dreamlike book, punctuated by moments of effervescent clarity.” \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Chicago Review of Books\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Shifting beneath the reader’s feet, \u003cem\u003eThe Beginnings \u003c\/em\u003eis a vertiginous, feverishly compelling work, offering a feast of surreal imagery and inventive language to those who approach it patiently.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Brock Covington\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“The prose of \u003cem\u003eThe Beginnings\u003c\/em\u003e is a camouflage that wants nothing more intensely than to fully reveal itself in all of its disruptive possibilities.” \u003cstrong\u003e—COM-POSIT\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Moresco was asking the question every writer should be asking themselves: How can I invent a language to describe my reality?” \u003cstrong\u003e—Harold Rogers\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Beginnings\u003c\/em\u003e achieves something of considerable difficulty, and something deeply liberating, in times in which explanatory writing, philosophical and existential musings risk to be re-branded as escapism for adults: he manages to build a deeply philosophical book through the sheer energy of literary presentation.” \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Reading in Translation\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“A major writer of contemporary Italian literature . . . an epic of the individual in search of vocation in an elusive universe.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eLe Temps\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Explosive. And masterful.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eLe Matricule des Anges\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Between the quest for self and the search for possible salvation, there is the path, the effacement of oneself to be reborn to oneself: few texts allow for this almost mystical experience, this brush with the very essence of things. Antonio Moresco could have remained in this silence where he felt `at ease.’ We should be grateful that he did not.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eLire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“One of the most original voices in contemporary Italian literature.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Mare Nostrum\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antonio Moresco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49077111750873,"sku":"9781646053957","price":39.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0502\/9530\/8441\/files\/9781646053957.jpg?v=1786457180","url":"https:\/\/www.arielbooks.com.au\/products\/the-beginnings-9781646053957","provider":"Ariel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}