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The exemplar: Ignazio Silone.(author)
Communism, though little discussed now and loitering in hidden garrets on miserable straw pallets, is the dark hero destined for a great, if temporary, role in the modern tragedy.
--Heinrich Heine, June 20, 1842
Ignazio Silone liked to say that every author writes different versions of the one book singular to him. In his own case, this book was the novel Fontamara, published inauspiciously in Switzerland in 1933. At the time Silone was poor, in exile, solitary, and on top of everything else suffering, as a result of consumption, from chronic ill-health. A couple of years earlier, he had broken with the Italian Communist party. He had been one of its ...
- The Reinvention of Ignazio Silone.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Christianity and Literature Williams, Robert E. June 22, 2005 700+ words
The Reinvention of Ignazio Silone. By Elizabeth Leake. Toronto: University of...Elizabeth Leake examines in The Reinvention of Ignazio Silone. Ignazio Silone (born Secondino Tranquilli in 1900) was one of...
- Ignazio Silone in Exile: Writing and Antifascism in Switzerland, 1929-44.(Book...
- Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review Parisi, Luciano July 1, 2007 700+ words
Ignazio Silone in Exile: Writing and Antifascism in Switzerland, 1929-44. By DEBORAH...patient in a Davos sanatorium and then as a political refugee in Zurich, Ignazio Silone spent fifteen years in Switzerland, from 1929 to 1944. In this time...
- The novelist and the secret policeman.(Ignazio Silone may have acted as a...
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Coleman, Peter January 1, 2004 700+ words
...The Seed beneath the Snow), by Ignazio Silone, translated by Eric Mosbacher...disavventura di un povero cristiano (Silone on Trial: The Misadventure of...reputation of the great Italian writer Ignazio Silone. The scandal arose out of the...
- Even Worse Than Orwell.(Ignazio Silone)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: The Nation COCKBURN, ALEXANDER June 5, 2000 700+ words
...roll the famous Italian name of Ignazio Silone, who turns out to have been an...fellow travelers. Like Orwell, Silone has been hailed down the years as...and Wine. In the cold war years Silone was a major star in the anti-Communist...
- Ignoble Ig-nazi-o?(response to essays about double-dealing of Ignazio Silone,...
- Magazine article from: The Nation Hitchens, Christopher June 12, 2000 700+ words
...disclosures about the treachery and double-dealing of Ignazio Silone, who acted as an informer for Mussolini's police...series of conclusions from the available evidence: (1) Ignazio Silone was one of the founders of the Italian Communist Party...
- Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio Silone.(Brief article)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Publishers Weekly April 6, 2009 700+ words
Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio Silone Stanislao G. Pugliese. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...ISBN 978-0-374-11348-3 There was a time when Ignazio Silone was the most famous Italian author in the world. His...
- Erasing the past: Ignazio Silone's self-revisions.
- Magazine article from: Queen's Quarterly Leake, Elizabeth December 22, 2003 700+ words
...guarding more than just their privacy. IGNAZIO SILONE'S (1900-1978) fame as a cultural...ideals, however, by the late 1920s Silone was beginning to question the ethical...useful for the party's own ends. Silone's writerly persona capitalized...
- A buttered roll and a slice of bread: I. L. Peretz and Ignazio Silone.(Critical...
- Magazine article from: Midstream Gais, Ruth July 1, 2004 700+ words
...Italian Socialist-Communist writer, Ignazio Silone, told in his novel, Fontamara. I was stunned to find that in Silone's version, San Giuseppe, a real...know if my father ever read any Silone, though he may have in his left...
Source: HighBeam Research, The exemplar: Ignazio Silone.(author)