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The Abruzzo Trilogy
by Eric Mosbacher, Darina Silone, Ignazio Silone

ISBN 1586420062 (1-58642-006-2)
Softcover, Steerforth Pr

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And He Hid Himself: A Play in Four Acts
by Ignazio Silone

ISBN 1417984651 (1-4179-8465-1)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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Bread and Wine
by Ignazio Silone

ISBN 0451525000 (0-451-52500-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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Book summary:
One of the 20th century's essential novels depicting Fascism's rise in Italy.

Set and written in Fascist Italy, this book exposes that regime's use of brute force for the body and lies for the mind. Through the story of the once-exiled Pietro Spina, Italy comes alive with priests and peasants, students and revolutionaries, all on the brink of war.

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Bread and Wine
by Eric Mosbacher, Ignazio Silone

ISBN 0451529782 (0-451-52978-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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One of the 20th century's essential novels depicting Fascism's rise in Italy.

Set and written in Fascist Italy, this book exposes that regime's use of brute force for the body and lies for the mind. Through the story of the once-exiled Pietro Spina, Italy comes alive with priests and peasants, students and revolutionaries, all on the brink of war. [via]
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Emergency Exit
by Ignazio Silone

ISBN 0575003308 (0-575-00330-8)
Hardcover, Gollancz Limited, Victor

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A collection of essays with an autobiographical progression. Subjects: Communism - Italy. Italian essays. [via]
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Fontamara
by Ignazio Silone

ISBN 1872208053 (1-872208-05-3)
Hardcover, Redwords

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Fontamara is one of the Italian classics of the twentieth century. It was written in 1933 and was well-known in translation before it could be published in Italy. In England it was very popular in its Pengiun edition. Its author, Ignazio Silone, was a controversial figure throughout his life. He was a communist until 1931, later referring to himself as a 'Socialist without a party and a Christian without a church.' He wrote Fontamara first and foremost as an antifascist, setting it in his own region of Abruzzo, east of Rome. He describes the sufferings of the peasants, the cafoni, still living under feudalism and further burdened under the new fascist regime of Mussolini. The story itself is a good read, told with humour and suspense. The themes embrace politics and religion, revolution and mysticism. They raise such Italian problems as regionalism, the clash of ideologies and the ways of portraying them in literary form. The form of the narrative itself is an experiment in getting across a vital message in a fraught time. This edition includes an introduction and notes which help to set the novel in its historical and political context, both in Italy and the rest of Europe in the decade before the Second World War. The vocabulary section is exhaustive, making the text suitable for those just coming to grips with the language. [via]
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Memoir from a Swiss Prison
by Ignazio Silone , Stanislao G. Pugliese

ISBN 0893040886 (0-89304-088-6)
Softcover, Cross-Cultural Communications

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The text translated here was drafted on December 17, 1942. As Italian historian Lamberto Mercuri wrote in his introduction to the first publication of the memoir in 1979 (a year after Silone's death), it is a document which details Silone's conception not just of his political faith but his conception of writing and life as well. It is, in short, an "examination of conscience" of a major twentieth-century writer; one who struggled agaisnt two forms of totalitarianism but whose greatest battle may have been within his own soul. --From the Introduction: "Ignatio Silone's Dark Night of the Soul," Stanislao G. Pugliese [via]
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Open City
by William Weaver, Ignazio Silone , Kristina Olson

ISBN 1883642825 (1-883642-82-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Traddutore, traditore, goes the old Italian proverb: To translate is to betray. But William Weaver, who has assembled a fine anthology of contemporary Italian prose in Open City: Seven Writers in Postwar Rome, is anything but treacherous toward his favorites. For one thing, he is our preeminent translator from that euphonious, vowel-encrusted language, and anybody who reads his elegant versions of Italo Calvino or Umberto Eco will recognize what a great service he has performed to these high-wire stylists--not to mention their readers.
But as Weaver's preface-cum-memoir makes clear, he is not merely a linguistic loyalist. During the late 1940s and '50s, when the young translator lived in Rome, he got to know all the contributors to Open City: Ignazio Silone, Giorgio Bassani, Alberto Moravia, Elsa Morante, Natalia Ginzburg, Carlo Levi, and Carlo Emiliano Gadda. This anthology, then, is a peculiarly personal one, in which the editor exposes us to both the art and life of each author. It necessarily excludes such giants as Primo Levi, Leonardo Sciascia, and Calvino, none of whom happened to cross Weaver's path during his dolce vita phase. But the septet he has assembled is a splendid one, which suggests that the Eternal City was some kind of literary hot spot in the wake of the Second World War.
Gadda undoubtedly wins the crown for sheer stylistic extravagance. The excerpt Weaver has chosen from That Awful Mess on Via Merulana gives a vivid sense of the challenges (and rewards!) of that macaronic masterpiece. (It also includes some of the best portraiture of Rome itself, "lying as if on a map or scale model: it smoked slightly, at Porta San Paolo: a clear proximity of infinite thoughts and palaces, which the north wind had cleansed.") At the opposite end of the spectrum is Natalia Ginzburg, whose antirhetorical style still makes most contemporary novelists sound crude and inflationary, especially when it comes to minute discriminations of feeling. And in between, we find such marvels as Moravia's "Agostino" (a cruelly accurate account of childhood's end), Morante's "The Nameless One," and an excerpt from Carlo Levi's The Watch, which dispenses its wisdom casually but hits the bull's-eye every time:
The world holds us with a thousand ties of habit, work, inertia, affections. It's difficult and painful to separate from them. But as soon as a foot rests on a train, airplane, or automobile that will carry us away, everything disappears, the past becomes remote and is buried, a new time crowded to the brim with unknown promises envelopes us and, entirely free and anonymous, we look around searching for new companions.
Weaver's memoir is primarily an elegy for his "lost, open city" and those writers with whom he inhabited it--all but Bassani have died during the succeeding decades. As such, it includes an unmistakable hint of melancholy. But it manages to convey the excitement of the era, too--and the words that Weaver's companions committed to paper are, as Open City demonstrates, very much alive. --James Marcus [via]
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The Story of a Humble Christian
by Ignazio Silone

ISBN 0060138734 (0-06-013873-4)
Hardcover, Harper & Row

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Vino E Pane
by Ignazio Silone

ISBN 0884362698 (0-88436-269-8)
Softcover, Emc Pub

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