I’ve been meaning to read Tronti’s book for a good long while now… I’ve read the chunks that are in English before, but not for a long time. I can’t remember when I got the book in Spanish, but my plan had been to dive in immediately. I haven’t read much of it (too many other things, and lack of planning on my part).
Recently I mapped out a reading plan, to get my act together and slow trips to the library where I carry so many books home that my back aches from the weight and my heart aches from the realization that I really won’t get to know them very well before they are gone from my life. Then, today unexpectedly the Italian edition of Workers and Capital that I ordered on interlibrary loan came sooner than I planned, and is due back sooner than I’d planned. So I’m starting now and re-arranging the notes I made painstakingly on the back of an envelope about what I’ll be reading and in what order (the best laid plans of me and men, and all that). I’m planning to read the Spanish and the Italian together, to improve my Italian, and I’m considering being really excessive and getting the French edition too. I mapped out how the chunks of the English translation correspond to the Spanish and Italian paginations, at least where the sections start. I was thinking I’d read the English too for those sections, to anchor my reading better.
I set up a blog to post my notes on it, as a filing system primarily. I’ve called it, rather optimistically, Leggiamo Tronti. If anyone else wants to join in at all I’d be excited to have more folks involved.
Steve, Brett, if you’re reading this, be forewarned I plan to write you with questions…