Cultural Writing. Social Criticism. Translated from the Italian with anintroduction by Pasquale Verdicchio. "It is hard to think of a better point of entry into Gramsci's thought than his essay on the 'Southern Question.' Written on the eve of Gramsci's arrest and imprisonment, this essay anticipates many of the major issues treated in the Prison Notebooks"--Joseph Buttigieg, editor and translator of Gramsci's Prison Notebooks.