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We felt the urge to go back to the “crime scene” (our 1999 debut) after the collective lost a member, in the springtime of 2008. After months of crisis and conflict, we needed a new beginning. We needed a peculiar self-managed group therapy... Gert-from-the-Well appeared and told us: “I can help you,
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In May 2009 Wu Ming announced that they had almost finished writing a new book, set "in Q's world and historical continuum". They announced it would be published in Italy in the Fall of 2009. Later on, they revealed that the title would be
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as an "anti-novel", although their respective analyses come to different conclusions. While Home's review emphasized the social, political and subcultural references embedded in the plot, Liss' review dismissed the book as unnecessary and
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as a "handbook of survival skills", which might cast a revealing light on the book's ending. But, this is just one of the many interpretations that have emerged following publication.
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sanctioned the partition of the continent among Catholic and Protestant powers, so the last twenty years of the 20th century were marked by a vengeful rebirth of
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in the first half of the 16th century as he joins in various movements and uprisings that come as a result of the
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of European society after the decline of the 1960s and 1970s protest movements. As in the 16th century, the
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The following are printed editions. Downloadable online editions in several languages can be found
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profits?", to which Yorke replied: "I doubt it. That would cover basically the catering."
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for the film to Giaime Alonge and Alessandro Scippa. Procacci's production company,
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repressed any alternative theological current or radical social movement, and the
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have circulated since the mid-2000s. On December 9 2007, the British newspaper
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in 1999. The novel is set in Europe during the 16th century, and deals with
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statement, which allows the non-commercial reproduction of the book.
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from a political point of view, and maintain that the novel is an
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was generally well-received among British press. Globally,
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as a subversive, identity-shifting collective phantom. The
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if you bring me back to life!”. And that’s what we did.
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This interpretation stems from the authors describing
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Luther Blissett (nom de plume)
Shaun Whiteside
Italian
Historical novel
Italy
Luther Blissett
Italian
Protestant reformation
nom de plume
Roberto Bui
Giovanni Cattabriga
Federico Guglielmi
Luca Di Meo
Wu Ming
Danish
Dutch
English
British
American
French
German
Greek
Korean
Lithuanian
Polish
Russian
Turkish
Basque
Czech

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