Pleasures on the periphery / John Coates.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coates, John, M.A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Socialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (109 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Göttingen, Germany : Cuvillier Verlag, [2022]

Summary:

PLEASURES on the PERIPHERY is a collection of authentic, occasionally surreal observations of life and work in the provinces of Sicily and People's Hungary 1966-1970. The narrator was short of money, trying to survive like everyone else, very much out on his own - but through his work in a position to encounter a wide cross-section of society. Twenty years later he was one of a team assisting in the local transition from communism to democracy ('Hello What?') in the distant south of Hungary, supported by an EC grant. The concept of 'socialism with a human face' pervades many of the descriptions included in this book and acts as a recurrent theme in its vignettes.The book includes a number of original photographs, and begins and ends with excursions to two non-peripheral places, London and the cloudy south-west of Poland.

Contents:

Intro

FOREWORD.London 1962.

1965-1966. Vinti

1966. Il Mafioso

1966. Il Poliziotto

1966. Menefreghismo

1966. Sixty-nine, Morals, the Family and the Factory

1966. Il Latifondo

1968. In a Southern Country

1969. The White Colony

1969-1970. How Lucky You Are

1969. Unrechtsstaat

1969. Old Types

1970. Registration

1970. Pleasin' Paul: An Evening with Elemér

1970. Laci

1985. Party Town

1969-1999. Red Teréz

1990. On the Balcony

ENVOI 1963: On a Clear Day

1998: Cloudy Skies.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Coates, John Pleasures on the Periphery

ISBN:

9783736966321