![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In its 117 short chapters, the novel Q spans the period from 1517, when Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of Wittenberg Cathedral, to 1555 with the election of Cardinal Giovanni Pietro Carafa as Pope Paul IV founder of the infamous Index Librorum Prohibitorum. They continued writing under the name "Wu Ming." The authors have been called techno-anarchists but describe themselves as Italian Autonomist Marxists who promote anti-elitist and pro-proletarian ideas and writings. Its author, Luther Blissett, is the nom de plume of four Italian authors, Roberto Bui, Giovanni Cattabriga, Federico Guglielmi and Luca Di Meo, who were part of the "Luther Blissett Project" which ended in 1999. Q was first published in 1999 in Italy it is set in 16th century Europe and deals with many actual events and personalities in Anabaptist history. The work has also been issued as an electronic file and as a sound recording in a number of languages. The original Italian text has been translated (as of 2011) into Basque, Czech, Danish under the title: Q - Carafas øje,, Dutch, English (both British and American), French under the title: L'oeil de Carafa, German, Greek, Korean under the title: 큐 / Kʻyu, Polish under the title: Q : taniec smierci, Portuguese under the title: Q : o caçador de hereges, Russian, Serbian, Spanish and Turkish. Torino, Italy, Giulio Einaudi editore s.p.a. ![]()
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