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Ignazio Silone (1900–1978)

Teoksen Bread and Wine (Signet Classics) tekijä

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About the Author

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
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(ita) Pseudonimo e poi, dagli anni 1960, anche nome legale di Secondino Tranquilli

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Tekijän teokset

Bread and Wine (Signet Classics) (1936) 949 kappaletta
Fontamara (1930) 691 kappaletta
The Secret of Luca (1956) 227 kappaletta
The Story of a Humble Christian (1968) 147 kappaletta
The Seed Beneath the Snow (1941) 97 kappaletta
A Handful Of Blackberries (1952) 88 kappaletta
Emergency Exit (1965) 64 kappaletta
The School for Dictators (1938) 62 kappaletta
The Fox and the Camellias (1969) 43 kappaletta
Severina (1971) 24 kappaletta
il pane di casa 8 kappaletta
And He Hid Himself (1946) 8 kappaletta

Associated Works

The God That Failed (1944) — Avustaja — 420 kappaletta
A World of Great Stories (1947) 254 kappaletta
Man Alone: Alienation in Modern Society (1962) — Avustaja — 140 kappaletta
Open city : seven writers in postwar Rome (1999) — Avustaja — 49 kappaletta
The Modern Short Novel (1965) — Avustaja — 11 kappaletta
Italiaanse verhalen (1961) — Avustaja — 10 kappaletta
Modern Italian Short Stories (1954) — Avustaja — 6 kappaletta
Ignazio Silone prents the Living Thoughts of Mazzini (1939) — Toimittaja, eräät painokset5 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.

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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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Gypsy_Boy | 10 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Aug 24, 2023 |
Terminato questo romanzo, il mio pensiero è stato: i cafoni non vincono le rivoluzioni da soli. Nemmeno se si ribellano tutti insieme. Dall'altra parte, infatti, ci sarà sempre più organizzazione, più tattica, più strategia, più armi, e via discorrendo.

Silone ci mostra la divisione tra poveri e ricchi in tutta la sua estrema crudezza. E, leggendo, si percepisce che quello che li divide non sono soltanto i soldi, ma anche - o forse soprattutto - l'ignoranza. I Fontamaresi non sanno del fascismo e delle sue usanze - per così dire - e coloro che proprio con il regime si sono arricchiti ne approfittano.

Ma non solo i fascisti. Anche chi vorrebbe difenderli li sfrutta, incurante delle conseguenze che pagheranno sulla loro pelle. Alla fine il Solito Sconosciuto si fa bello con il sangue dei Fontamaresi, che, per la prima volta, hanno deciso di denunciare la loro condizione e di ribellarsi. Nessuno di loro, però, è consapevole della portata e della pericolosità di quello che stanno facendo...
… (lisätietoja)
 
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lasiepedimore | 10 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Aug 1, 2023 |
«L'abitato sembra un gregge di pecore scure e il campanile un pastore».
E forse in queste note iniziali c'è tutto il destino estremamente terreno e nefasto di un popolo povero e cafone, destinato a essere sottomesso, senza che l'opportunità di un eroismo autentico e giusto - rappresentato da Berardo Viola, personaggio difficile da dimenticare - possa cambiare le cose. Scritto nel 1930, in esilio e malattia, è libro importantissimo dell'impegno antifascista e della letteratura italiana tutta. Lettura che dovrebbe essere proposta nei percorsi scolastici.… (lisätietoja)
 
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d.v. | 10 muuta kirja-arvostelua | May 16, 2023 |
Adoro SIlone dai tempi del liceo, ma questo libro non è tra quelli che preferisco
 
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Claudy73 | 7 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Mar 15, 2023 |

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