Ignazio Silone (1900–1978)
Teoksen Bread and Wine (Signet Classics) tekijä
Tietoja tekijästä
Silone was 15 years old when an earthquake in his native Abruzzi killed his mother and five of his brothers. Before he was 20 he had established himself in Rome as editor of a socialist weekly. In 1921 he went off on the first of many trips to the Soviet Union and became a founding member of the näytä lisää Italian Communist party. Under fascism he hid at first, and then, in 1930, he fled to Switzerland, at which time, however, he also broke with the Communist party. The novels that made him world famous as an anti-Fascist were Fontamara (1930) and Bread and Wine, the latter first published in English in 1936 and then in 17 other languages as well as in Italian. Silone was virtually unknown in Italy until after World War II, by which time he had undergone a radical spiritual transformation that is explained in a very moving essay, "Emergency Exit," included in Richard Crossman's The God That Failed (1950). (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
Erotteluhuomautus:
(ita) Pseudonimo e poi, dagli anni 1960, anche nome legale di Secondino Tranquilli
Sarjat
Tekijän teokset
The Abruzzo Trilogy: Fontamara, Bread and Wine, The Seed Beneath the Snow (v. 1-3) (1931) 97 kappaletta, 1 arvostelu
il pane di casa 8 kappaletta
Fontamara-Pane e vino-Il seme sotto la neve-Una manciata di more-Il segreto di Luca (1982) 3 kappaletta
Simplicio-Letizia 2 kappaletta
Mr. Aristotle 2 kappaletta
RARE 1937 FIRST EDITION BREAD & WINE IGNAZIO SILONE WITH DUST JACKET ITALY CLASS [Hardcover] IGNAZIO SILONE 2 kappaletta
Lukova skrivnost 1 kappale
ෆොන්ටමාරා 1 kappale
පාන් සහ වයින් 1 kappale
Prgišče robidnic 1 kappale
LA ESCUELA DE LOS DICTADORES 1 kappale
Il dio che è fallito 1 kappale
Il seme sotto la neve. Nuova ediz. 1 kappale
La avventura d'un povero cristiano 1 kappale
Simplicio 1 kappale
Living Thought of Giuseppe Mazzini 1 kappale
La volpe e le camelie 1 kappale
Vini e pane 1 kappale
Oscar 159 - Il segreto di Luca 1 kappale
نان و شراب 1 kappale
Um punhado de amoras 1 kappale
Pensamiento vivo de Mazzini 1 kappale
Les lettres nouvelles (novembre 1956) 1 kappale
חפן תותים : רומן 1 kappale
The Travelers 1 kappale
Associated Works
New World Writing: Third Mentor Selection - Poetry, Fiction, Drama, Criticism (1953) — Avustaja — 6 kappaletta
Ignazio Silone prents the Living Thoughts of Mazzini (1939) — Toimittaja, eräät painokset — 6 kappaletta
Merkitty avainsanalla
Yleistieto
- Virallinen nimi
- Tranquilli, Secondino
- Muut nimet
- Pasquini
Silone, Ignazio - Syntymäaika
- 1900-05-01
- Kuolinaika
- 1978-08-22
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- Italië
- Syntymäpaikka
- Pescina, Italy
- Kuolinpaikka
- Geneva, Switzerland
- Asuinpaikat
- Geneva, Switzerland
- Ammatit
- novelist
essayist
playwright
editor
short-story writer
politician - Suhteet
- Silone, Darina (wife)
- Organisaatiot
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary ∙ Literature ∙ 1950)
Italian Socialist Party
Italian Communist Party
Office of Strategic Services
Congress for Cultural Freedom
National Institute of Arts and Letters (näytä kaikki 10)
PEN
Italian Pen Club (president)
Association for the Freedom of Italian Culture (chairman)
Avanti! (editor) - Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Jerusalem Prize (1969)
Prix mondial Cino Del Duca (1971) - Lyhyt elämäkerta
- Ignazio Silone was the pen name of Secondino Tranquilli, who was born in the Abruzzo region of Italy and lost many family members, including his mother, in the 1915 Avezzano earthquake. Silone was a founding member of the Italian Communist Party in 1921, and became one of its clandestine leaders during Mussolini's Fascist regime. Silone was expelled from the party due to his opposition to Stalinism. He went to Switzerland for his health and began to write. His novels Fontamara, Bread and Wine and The Seed Beneath the Snow form the Abruzzo Trilogy. He returned to Italy in 1944 and edited a journal, Tempo Presente.
Jäseniä
Kirja-arvosteluja
Fontamara (The Abruzzo Trilogy) Tekijä: Ignazio Silone
A unique look at how the poor are viewed as a resource to be used and discarded, not as actual human beings. The most prescient aspect of the story is how little this perception changes, regardless of the the type of government in power.
I had read "Bread and Wine" over fifty years ago and been impressed by it. Reading it again along with the other two novels Silone wrote in the same setting, I am overcome with the contrast between the bleakness of his vision and the hope of his characters.
This for me was a 3.5 star read, but I'll round up to 4 Stars considering when it was written, 1936, a time when the events in the book were actually playing out in Mussolini’s Fascist Italy.
The principal character, Pietro Spina or Paulo Spada reflects Silone himself, rejecting Stalinist Communist Party dogma but embracing socialist idealism, criticizing the Church, uncomfortable at first in his ecclesiastic disguise, but eventually warming to it. Silone was an outspoken critic of fascism, but struggled with his own identity, as does his character. He recognized the danger of a revolutionary movement outgrowing the needs of the people it professed to serve and eventually becoming totalitarian itself, returning the masses to the servitude it strove to overthrow. Stalin’s dictatorship is no different from Mussolini’s, and the masses in either case become resigned to their fate; “But you can live in the most democratic country on earth, and if you're lazy, obtuse or servile within yourself, you're not free.” This in a way is Silone’s resignation to the eventual death of his socialist ideal; it cannot work without the support of the masses, who are apathetic, nor can it work as part of a broader political framework.
My impression on reading this in 2018 is unfortunately one of predictability and datedness. That said, it is well written, this reader enjoying the descriptions of simple cafoni lifestyle and customs, often comic, often sad. While the novel made quite an impression at the time, it’s not as timeless as Orwell, IMO. I may read [b:Fontamara|143250|Fontamara|Ignazio Silone|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1172151497s/143250.jpg|2455413] at some point, but I’m not in a great rush to do so.
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The principal character, Pietro Spina or Paulo Spada reflects Silone himself, rejecting Stalinist Communist Party dogma but embracing socialist idealism, criticizing the Church, uncomfortable at first in his ecclesiastic disguise, but eventually warming to it. Silone was an outspoken critic of fascism, but struggled with his own identity, as does his character. He recognized the danger of a revolutionary movement outgrowing the needs of the people it professed to serve and eventually becoming totalitarian itself, returning the masses to the servitude it strove to overthrow. Stalin’s dictatorship is no different from Mussolini’s, and the masses in either case become resigned to their fate; “But you can live in the most democratic country on earth, and if you're lazy, obtuse or servile within yourself, you're not free.” This in a way is Silone’s resignation to the eventual death of his socialist ideal; it cannot work without the support of the masses, who are apathetic, nor can it work as part of a broader political framework.
My impression on reading this in 2018 is unfortunately one of predictability and datedness. That said, it is well written, this reader enjoying the descriptions of simple cafoni lifestyle and customs, often comic, often sad. While the novel made quite an impression at the time, it’s not as timeless as Orwell, IMO. I may read [b:Fontamara|143250|Fontamara|Ignazio Silone|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1172151497s/143250.jpg|2455413] at some point, but I’m not in a great rush to do so.
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Powerful, enormously sad book about peasant life in southern Italy. As such, it reminded me of both Carlo Levi’s Christ Stopped at Eboli and Giovanni Verga’s House by the Medlar Tree. It’s different from those works in its unrelenting sadness and, in a way, its terrifying description of the life of the peasant farmers and their families. Corruption permeates society, the poor are ignored at best or trampled on by anyone and everyone else. Like all of Silone’s work, there is a constant underlying political theme but part of the success of the book, I think, is that he doesn’t overplay it. I can’t say I “enjoyed” the book but I’m glad I read it and would recommend it: it’s well worth the time.… (lisätietoja)
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"We" narration (1)
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