"What is the relation between capital and literature, even more precisely between world literature and the capitalist world market? Joining a lively Marxist debate on the temporal structures of capitalism, Filippo Menozzi uses the notion of non-synchronism to tackle these questions. World literature becomes in this book a register of the heterogeneous constitution of capital's time, which allows describing its regime of domination while at the same time shedding light on unexpected potentialities of liberation. This is a remarkable book, a must-read for scholars of literature and a challenging work for anyone interested in a critical understanding of capitalism." (Professor Sandro Mezzadra, University of Bologna (Italy)) "In his superb book World Literature, Non-Synchronism, and the Politics of Time, Filippo Menozzi repositions the idea of non-synchronism in the materialist tradition beyond both teleology and relativism. Menozzi's book is a crucial contribution to the current discussions on time, globalization, post-colonial studies, and world literature. Menozzi brilliantly shows not only how non-synchronism characterizes the unevenness of the social whole in capitalist globalization but also how it can constitute a new way of thinking emancipatory politics." (Professor Massimiliano Tomba, University of California Santa Cruz, USA).