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For Life Update:
The first print run has sold out! A second print run is now underway and will be ready for the post on Friday, June 5th. Orders remain open and will ship as soon as the new books arrive.
For Life! was partially released in zine form by Distinctively Dionysian in 2020. It has now been revised and expanded into a new book edition containing a much larger body of previously unearthed writings by Enrico Arrigoni.
Written originally in Italian and translated into English by Wolfi Landstreicher and Fíona Vivienne (and into French by Fiona), this edition gathers essays, reflections, polemics, fragments, and autobiographical writings that trace Arrigoni's fiercely individualist outlook across exile, anti-fascist struggle, imprisonment, wandering, and daily life outside conformity.
Most importantly, the writings collected here had never before appeared in English. Drawn from rare Italian-language publications and archival sources, several have not been republished in any form since their original appearance in anarchist journals of the 1920s. This volume therefore presents not only a new translation, but the first substantial English-language appearance of these writings. With many thanks to the Italian anarchists who helped preserve and share these materials, we are delighted to bring them to readers for the first time.
Accompanying the writings throughout the book are photographs by Jacques Henri Lartigue, whose drifting, intimate, and sharply alive images move alongside Arrigoni's texts without illustrating them directly.
Contents include:
Introduction
In His Own Words
For Life
Alone Against All
The Other Preachers of Death
Hang Your Tyrant
The Anarchist Mass
Down with Civilization, the fuller writing
Individual Reappropriation / the Right to Idleness
This revised edition also includes a new introduction on Arrigoni’s life and historical context, discussing his connections to the broader individualist anarchist milieu and the circumstances surrounding these translations.
The translations remain Arrigoni’s cadence, obscurity, et étrangeté.
Published by Bacchus Editions.
Second round of printing is complete. Shipping begins again, June 5, 2026.
For Life Update:
The first print run has sold out! A second print run is now underway and will be ready for the post on Friday, June 5th. Orders remain open and will ship as soon as the new books arrive.
For Life! was partially released in zine form by Distinctively Dionysian in 2020. It has now been revised and expanded into a new book edition containing a much larger body of previously unearthed writings by Enrico Arrigoni.
Written originally in Italian and translated into English by Wolfi Landstreicher and Fíona Vivienne (and into French by Fiona), this edition gathers essays, reflections, polemics, fragments, and autobiographical writings that trace Arrigoni's fiercely individualist outlook across exile, anti-fascist struggle, imprisonment, wandering, and daily life outside conformity.
Most importantly, the writings collected here had never before appeared in English. Drawn from rare Italian-language publications and archival sources, several have not been republished in any form since their original appearance in anarchist journals of the 1920s. This volume therefore presents not only a new translation, but the first substantial English-language appearance of these writings. With many thanks to the Italian anarchists who helped preserve and share these materials, we are delighted to bring them to readers for the first time.
Accompanying the writings throughout the book are photographs by Jacques Henri Lartigue, whose drifting, intimate, and sharply alive images move alongside Arrigoni's texts without illustrating them directly.
Contents include:
Introduction
In His Own Words
For Life
Alone Against All
The Other Preachers of Death
Hang Your Tyrant
The Anarchist Mass
Down with Civilization, the fuller writing
Individual Reappropriation / the Right to Idleness
This revised edition also includes a new introduction on Arrigoni’s life and historical context, discussing his connections to the broader individualist anarchist milieu and the circumstances surrounding these translations.
The translations remain Arrigoni’s cadence, obscurity, et étrangeté.
Published by Bacchus Editions.
Second round of printing is complete. Shipping begins again, June 5, 2026.