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Founded in 1958 by Alberto Mondadori, who announced the news to William Faulkner by letter,
Il Saggiatore remains committed today to its original mission: to publish books
that convey a precise identity.
Our distinctiveness rests on the authors whose work we bring out:
Claude LéviStrauss, Ernesto De Martino, Simone de Beauvoir, Noam Chomsky, Daron Acemoglu, Paul
Mason, Witold Gombrowicz, Joan Didion, Geoff Dyer, Olivia Laing, Mircea Cărtărescu and others.
Together, our backlist and more recent releases form one grand tome with a precise profile.
Il Saggiatore is grounded in the Enlightenment, Neoclassicism and a secular
conception of culture. We envision books as tools with which to examine reality. Throughout its long
and storied past, our publishing house has remained independent, putting out titles we believe in
rather than catering to market demands. Il Saggiatore is not an academic press.
We
are not so much interested in current affairs as we are in investigating contemporaneity. Our
outlook is international, and we are supporters of radical reformism. Il Saggiatore
publishes both fiction and nonfiction, often in blended form; we believe that essays can also be a
type of narrative, and novels tools for knowledge. Il Saggiatore eschews
ideologies. We focus on peripheries, in our belief that they are often actually at the centre of
matters. Il Saggiatore’s primary traits are curiosity, exploration and knowledge.
We will continue to survey the worlds we live in and to help engender new ones.
For further information, to receive a PDF or a sample copy or to be added to our foreign rights newsletter write to Rebecca Mombelli rights@ilsaggiatore.com
You can find the last updated rights list here.
When people think about the Arctic, they think about a monotone expanse of white snow, devoid of distinguishing figures. They could not be more wrong. Snow can be blue, or purple, or even green under the right light, and in tiny holes under the surface of the ice a strange kind of biome flourishes, which may hold the solution to the mystery of life. Marco Tedesco is one of the scientists living among the fast-disappearing ice. Every facet of his life revolves around it, whether mapping the geography of rivers or studying the bacteria inside the cryoconite holes or the remains of the High Arctic camel. Ice. Tales from a Disappearing Continent is an exciting scientific adventure much like Charles Darwin’s The Voyage of the Beagle, but, at the same time, it is a heartfelt plea to treasure ice, because without it we would lose not only the roots of our past, but also our future.
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